Freedom-marching rampant in Iraq.

"Yes, by historical standards the war in Iraq isn't terribly bloody, which does tend to get lost in the media coverage."---Putz, August 26, 2006

This is stunning.

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred.
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It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December. It is more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the British-based Iraq Body Count research group.

This gives lie to the Putzian, "Well, there's violence in Philadelphia, too" and "The media is over reporting the bad news" memes. Clearly, the media has been under-reporting the bad news. It also explains why so many Iraqis favor attacks on US troops.

The level of human suffering and misery this completely pointless war has wrought is beyond belief. What a tragedy.

UPDATE

Greenwald has an excellent post on this here.