Toll, please

Even the most meager of estimates for the Iraqi death count reaches into the tens of thousands, but a new report says it may be as high as 900,000.

Yup. That's right. Just under a million. Ironic that it's about the same number by which Americans measure wealth and status- after all, you don't hear people congratulate each other on becoming brand new hundred-thousandaires, do you? Still, even the conservative Brookings Institution puts the death toll at the pretty healthy median income of 62,000, which, though it may not have the same ring to it, is still nothing to sneer at.

So the conservative estimate is 62,000. Just to put that into perspective, that's about the same as the number of Americans who died in the Vietnam War.

Good job, George!