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Death wish.(Up Front)(Iraqi casualties )(Brief article)

Breaking news: People are dying in Iraq. Of course, just how many has been the subject of some debate. Researchers at Johns Hopkins released a massive, rigorous cluster sample survey of Iraqi casualties in October, which found, between 2003 and 2006, an estimated 654,965 "excess deaths"--that is, deaths above and beyond the country's prewar mortality rate. What did President Bush think of the finding? "I don't consider it a credible ...