What is the real death toll in Iraq?

The Americans learned one lesson from Vietnam: don't count the civilian dead. As a result, no one knows how many Iraqis have been killed in the five years since the invasion. Estimates put the toll at between 100,000 and one million, and now a bitter war of numbers is raging.

In the article below we were wrong to say that a household survey conducted by the World Health Organization and the Iraqi health ministry found that the rate of violent deaths had doubled in Iraq after the invasion. The survey did not make this finding. Figures that were unadjusted for under-reporting showed a doubling of the rate of all deaths and a violence-related death rate about 11 times higher. The article said the survey estimated that 151,000 civilians had been killed since the invasion. That figure included combatants.
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