Here is a highly informative discussion of the Johns Hopkins study published in The Lancet reporting an estimated 100,000 "excess" civilian deaths in Iraq as a consequence of the U.S. invasion; the discussion deals, in particular, with the charge that the 100,000 figure is misleading because of the size of the confidence interval, and does a particularly good job on the widely cited critique of the study by Fred Kaplan in Slate.
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