British government scientists say the Johns Hopkins study on Iraq civilian mortality was accurate and reliable. This paper, published in the Lancet last October, estimated a death toll of 650,000 Iraqi civilians.
"Two hundred years from now, the Iraq war will be mourned as the moment when Britain violated its delicate democratic constitution and joined the ranks of nations that use extreme pre-emptive killing as a tactic of foreign policy. Some anniversary that will be."
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