It trumps by a considerable degree every other grizzly fact, incident or trend in the Iraq fiasco to date. The highly-credible survey published yesterday in the on-line edition of The Lancet reports that 654,965 Iraqis have died as the direct result of George Bush’s unilateral, unprovoked military invasion of a sovereign nation in March 2003. That’s more people than live in the entire District of Columbia, and 218 times more than died in 9/11 in the U.S. (noted despite the fact that 9/l1 and Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with each other).
