It’s all over the news – Memeorandum [1] has it at the top of their page, so it’s getting a lot of play in the blogosphere as well. Here’s the Washington Post headline: Study Claims Iraq’s ‘Excess’ Death Toll Has Reached 655,000 [2]
Rick Moran [3] has the definitive post up on this latest ‘study’, which incidentally was conducted by the same group who conducted the last controversial Iraq civilian death count study [4], which claimed that 100,000 Iraqi civilians had been killed since the start of the Iraq war. That study, I should note and as Rick pointed out, was also released shortly before an election: October 29, 2004 [5]. This latest study is highly dubious, as Rick points out with various links, so treat the media hype for what it is: an October surprise.
Others blogging about this: Gateway Pundit [6], Outside The Beltway [7], Blue Crab Boulevard [8], Decision ’08 [9], Terry Trippany at Newsbusters [10]