Yesterday, Bush dismissed the findings of researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and the Al
Mustansiriya University in Baghdad derived from a
door-to-door survey, conducted by doctors, of 1,849 households in Iraq.

In a speech a few months ago, Bush said he thought the Iraqi death toll was 30,000.

Johns Hopkins and Al Mustansiriya researchers took the number of deaths reported by household residents, they
extrapolated to a nationwide figure saying that the war has resulted in the deaths of nearly 655,000 Iraqis as of July.

The researchers, reflecting the inherent uncertainties in such
extrapolations, said they were 95 percent certain that the real number
lay somewhere between 392,979 and 942,636 deaths.