DCist saw the sign. Our friends in Washington have a little reminder that tells them about the number of American military personnel killed in Iraq since the start of the conflict in 2003. Today at M.I.T. Dr. Les Roberts of Johns Hopkins talks about his study that attempts to quantify the number of civilians killed during the conflict. The study does not only attempt to find the number that Donald Rumsfeld won’t quantify in any estimate, but goes further to identify the mortality rate as it compared to the pre-war number. The study purports over 100,000 civilians were killed in Iraq from March of 2003 to September 2004. Bostonist isn’t sure that this is accurate; we’ve been watching www.iraqbodycount.org while we’ve been bored at work and they’re only up to 18,000. We’re sure that the good Dr. Roberts will state his claim here in the Hub.
Image from the report published by Lacent "Mortality before and after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: cluster sample survey"
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