More Iraqis per year die under US occupation than under Hussein.

More Americans died in Iraq last year than the number of AMericans that died in Los Angeles County, despite a wide disparity in numbers of Americans.

Dugger still has some questions to answer:

Why were there so many unidentified bodies in the Baghdad morgue last year?

How many Iraqis would have been killed under Hussein over the last 4 years if the US didn’t invade?

Now that your two favorite talking points have been demolished what will be next?

“Firstly, the survey appeared to be based on an extrapolation technique rather than a detailed body count.”

Note the implication that the only valid methodology would be an actual body count. Lucky for them it’s a war zone, and there’s no way to actually do a body count, huh? What are the odds?!?

The Prime Minister of Great Britain who links his legacy to the invasion of Iraq doesn’t like the numbers? Oh gosh. Telling.

“Asked if the Prime Minister was concerned about a survey published today suggesting that 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a result of the war in Iraq, the PMOS said that it was important to treat the figures with caution because there were a number of concerns and doubts about the methodology that had been used. Firstly, the survey appeared to be based on an extrapolation technique rather than a detailed body count. Our worries centred on the fact that the technique in question appeared to treat Iraq as if every area was one and the same. In terms of the level of conflict, that was definitely not the case. Secondly, the survey appeared to assume that bombing had taken place throughout Iraq. Again, that was not true. It had been focussed primarily on areas such as Fallujah. Consequently, we did not believe that extrapolation was an appropriate technique to use.”

More conspiracaes boys. Better comfort each other or the ol’ Bushey Man will get you. How ’bout a great big group hug.

Easy, Dr. A.: Every time you think you’ve got to beat your head against that wall of frozen manure, do one of the following instead:

1) Go find a loved one and give him/her/it a big hug.

2) Go pet a companion animal of your choice (dog, cat, ferret, iguana, guppy, boa constrictor)

3) Pour yourself two fingers of fine island single-malt, and enjoy it straight-up.

The urge will soon go away.

Classic Scumbag Dugger.

16,000. It’s a hard number from 2006 and has to serve as a minimum. So if the majority of your examples estimates are less than 16,000, we can safely conclude they are so badly off as to be worthless.

Example, we have a stack of 100 US currency bills. We know they are all genuine US paper money currency. We can’t see all of them, but we can see the top bill. The top bill is definitely a one hundred dollar bill, no question. Now we ask 100 people to estimate how much money is in the stack, and show them the stack and tell them there are 100 US paper currency bills. After surveying the 100 people the median estimate is $75. From that we can conclude the people surveyed have no clue how to add or make an educated guess. Just like your median estimate example.

Mainstream, non paranoid sources indicate Saddam killed at roughly four times the current rate.

If we applied the same methodology to your Saddam number, he would be responsible for about 500,000 simply because Iraq admits that is about how many died in the IRaq-Iran war. The rest of the deaths wouldn’t count because they weren’t officially reported or tallied.

Damn, that was easy.