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Old 01-04-2008, 17:56 PM   #30 (permalink)
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We estimate that through July 2006, there have been 654,965 “excess deaths”—fatalities above the pre-invasion death rate—in Iraq as a consequence of the war. Of post-invasion deaths, 601,027 were due to violent causes.
Do these people not understand the concepts of precision and significant figures?
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