The radio program This American Life with Ira Glass did a very good hour on this study (a show called “The Number"), describing the sampling process, which seemed rigorous.

I think George W. Bush can now be correctly included among the elite members of the fraterity of ultra-mass murderers which includes the likes of Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, Torquemada, Attila the Hun, Ghengis Khan!

So, when, where and how will Bush, the mass murderer, answer for his crimes?

The stench of mendacity from the Bush White House regarding Iraq has been consistant and pervasive. Why, therefore, would any serious person imagine that this sickening cloud of disgrace wouldn’t cover the actual “Iraqi” noncombatant death toll as well?

To what must be the grievous exasperation of the so-called “Bushies”—a name as doltish as the individuals it tends to include—this matter simply won’t die as readily as innocent “Iraqi” civilians. Surely even the most vile, encrusted neo-con must now realize that the vast majority of the dead had exactly nothing to do with 9/11—if any!

George W. Bush, as well as the scum in his administration who adore him, have taken America to the Gold—leaving even Saddam Hussein in the dust in Iraq’s Murdering Bastard Olympics.

The key to this and any other study is, how representative of the country was thir sample?

500 Iraq war-related deaths per day continuing at this rate in a nation of currenty 26 million means about one out of every 41 people

More often than not, those criticizing the Lancet study, e.g. President Bush, do so because they don’t “like” the numbers; not because of invalidity of its methodology.  But then, the Bush administration has a track record for attacking science whenever it does not suit their pseudo-religious, neoconservative agenda.  An administration that spent six years attacking the science of global warming; who has consistently tried to prevent a display of the flag draped coffins of U.S. service personnel returning home; whose pre-war “intelligence” was at best “faith-based,” but more than likely the product of deliberate deception, can scarsely be considered a reliable source of scientific information on the number of Iraqi deaths--numbers that have undoubtedly experienced a significant increase since the 655,000 in the Lancet/Johns Hopkins University study released last October.