The L.A. Times story is here. Not surprisingly, the Pentagon dismisses the estimate out of hand, but as Jon points out, it’s right in line with this extrapolation of last year’s Lancet study, which was also dismissed out of hand, despite using widely-accepted methodology.

Meanwhile, when random Americans were polled a few months ago by the Associated Press, the median guess for the death toll was under ten thousand.

Obviously, we really have no idea how many innocent people have died in Iraq.  But there’s at least a fair chance that however bad you may think Iraq is, you might need to multiply it by one hundred.