The cost of Iraqi "freedom" is over 600,000 Iraqis dead.

In the new study, researchers attempt to calculate how many more Iraqis have died since March 2003 than one would expect without the war. Their conclusion, based on interviews of households and not a body count, is that about 600,000 died from violence, mostly gunfire.
They also found a small increase in deaths from other causes like heart disease and cancer.

"Deaths are occurring in Iraq now at a rate more than three times that from before the invasion of March 2003," Dr. Gilbert Burnham, lead author of the study, said in a statement.

There is talk that this study is slanted for political purposes, but I have my doubts that is the case. Just from the number of deaths that we hear about on a daily basis it is clear that the number MUST be in the hundreds of thousands. I certainly do not think that this number is outside the realm of possibilities.

The undeniable fact is that there are more Iraqis dying with us in charge then died when Saddam was in charge. Therefore things are worse for the people of Iraq since we invaded.

And by the way, we are no safer either.