Even discounting the fact that the erroneous 1,091 number, which included deaths by natural causes, is already all over the place, not one number in there tells us how many of the 686 civilian victims of terrorist attacks, including bombings, shootings, and the rest, were victims of "executions" as Lindy claimed. Lindy got it wrong, as did the AP article I linked to above, and I pointed that out. It's just one of many examples of crap numbers getting out into the "common wisdom."

This is of course assuming that the Iraq Ministry of Health is a reliable source in the first place. Somehow, I think that if the Iraq government issued a statistic that was good news, the level of skepticism around here would go up markedly.

Ironically, the left-wing site "Iraq Body Count" is under attack from those even further on the Left insisting they're "undercounting" casualties. So it goes.

BTW, do you know how broad the term "war-related violence" is?