Originally Posted by Herodotus

Well this new report is nothing to crow about if you are a war supporter. It validates a higher death total than as ever been previously reported, except for the Lancet studies. It also shows a huge increase in the number of deaths before and after the invasion. The violent death rate went from .1 per 1,000 to 1.09 per 1,000 and 3.14 per 1,000 among men, up from .28 per 1,000 for the year before the war.

So you have a fairly peaceful and fairly stable country that was torn apart by the violence unleashed by the invasion. Also a significant number of clusters from Anbar were not visited, so is the study still low-balled? Perhaps, but I still think it is a good study and more in-line with the actual number of dead than anything else out there. One good thing this report does is show that the Lancet was overly politicized, but still 150,000 dead civilians through violence puts it on par with the worst tragedies of the 21st century.