Counting the deaths in Iraq

Horrible enough that the number of US troops killed in the Bush cabal's mad war in Iraq reached 3,308 yesterday.

Then there are those "other deaths"--equally the deaths of beloved family members and friends. Here is what John Pilger wrote last Friday in the UK's Guardian:

"Last October, the Lancet published research led by Johns Hopkins University in the US that calculated the deaths of 655,000 Iraqis as a direct result of the Anglo-American invasion. Downing Street acolytes derided the study as 'flawed'. They were lying. They knew that the chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Defence, Sir Roy Anderson, had backed the survey, describing its methods as 'robust' and 'close to best practice', and that other government officials had secretly approved the 'tried and tested way of measuring mortality in conflict zones'. The figure of Iraqi deaths is now estimated at close to a million."

Close to one million. By any measure of history, that is colossal crime.