How Many Iraqis Have Died?

How many Iraqis have been killed since the US led invasion of Iraq began last year, including Saddam's troops, so-called insurgents, victims of insurgents and the "civilian collateral damage" victims the Pentagon assured would be kept to an absolute minimum? Here is an answer from the Reuters news agency. I doubt it will receive mainstream American media coverage.

"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a report just published online by The Lancet medical journal.

"The use of air power in areas with lots of civilians appears to be killing a lot of women and children," Roberts told Reuters.

The researchers used door to door interviews and comparisons of pre and post invasion death figures to compile the report, which was peer reviewed. Two thirds of the deaths were in Falluja where the US has conducted massive air strikes.