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Excess violent deaths in the first study was approximately 48K. Twenty-two months later, this number had increased to approximately 601K. So, if we were to average this out, you have over 25K Iraqis killed by violence every single month, or nearly 1000 a day
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in other words, the findings depend upon the difference between pre-war mortality and post-war mortality. This will be very important a little bit later in the post.
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Shek these are two of your own statements. Can you please point out were the lance reports says that 600k dead are only due to violent deaths? As far as I was reading it the were comparing mortality rates. Wiping out an infrastructure for example will kill more peoople with unclean water than bullets. Still its a direct consequence of the conflict.
I share your concern what is the benchmark figure (mortality rate) before the war compared to the number now.