Nathan

CJR March/April 2005: Voices: "The study, though scientifically robust, had several elements working against it. One was its subject matter: Researchers had done a door-to-door survey of nearly 8,000 people in thirty-three locations in Iraq to estimate how many people had died as a consequence of the U.S.-led invasion and occupation. Americans, and their media, were reluctant to accept the study's conclusions - that the number was likely around 100,000; that violence had become the primary cause of death since the invasion; that more than half of those killed were women and children. "