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Gulf War Cost 158,000 Lives, Researcher's Job

Thomas Ginsberg | Philadelphia Inquirer | January 5, 2003

"Some independent analysts have speculated that 50,000 Iraqi civilians could die in a U.S. invasion. But others, including Daponte and Galen Carpenter, say there are far too many variables to make such a prediction. One suggests it won't matter much anyway, compared with Americans' deaths."

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