Here is a transcript of a panel discussion between Juan Cole, expert on middle eastern affair, Dr. Gilbert Burnham, a Ph.D. and an M.D., who is a co- director of the Center for Refugee and Disaster Response at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Les Roberts, associate professor of Clinical Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. The latter two academics wrote a recent article in the British medical journal, Lancet, estimating the number of civilian deaths that have resulted from the U. S. invasion of Iraq. The conclusions are shocking: 650,000 persons have perished as a direct result of our invasion, the proportional equivalent of 7.8 million Americans out of our population.

Read and ponder.

Kucinich-Paul Congressional Hearing on Civilian Casualties in Iraq