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Mathematically, Still On The Brink

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Back in March, I mathematically concluded that 117 Iraqis would have to die every day for the situation in Iraq to be correctly labeled a “civil war.” The numbers are getting close, but they aren’t there yet. According to a recent report, 14,000 Iraqis have died in the first half of 2006. That works out to an average of around, say, 75 deaths every day. So if you see the media panicking yet again about whether or not Iraq is in a “civil war,” you can relax; they’re still just “on the brink of civil war.”

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