“In October 2006, the noted British medical journal Lancet…estimated that the total deaths in Iraq in the period between March 2003 and July 2006 may have exceeded 650,000 people. The figure was astounding, as it easily surpassed all the previously published figures of casualties, which ranged from 50,000 (from the unofficial Iraq Body Count) to 100,000. The Lancet used statistically acceptable methods, which had been employed with good effect in other conflict zones. The report was immediately condemned by officials in Washington and London as being grossly exaggerated.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 450