Andrew Cockburn, Counterpunch, January 9:
“President Bush’s off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as ‘30,000, more or less’ was quite certainly an under-estimate. The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million.”