A zero here, a few there and..

About 655,000 Iraqis have died from the 3-1/2-year-old Iraq war, far more than previously estimated, public health experts said on Wednesday in a study President George W. Bush dismissed as not credible.

US and Iraqi researchers used household interviews rather than body counts to estimate how many more Iraqis have died because of the war than died annually before the war. The study published in the medical journal The Lancet estimated pre-war deaths at 143,000 a year.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh told Reuters, "The report is unbelievable. These numbers are exaggerated and not precise." Iraqi government officials put the total Iraqi death toll since the war started at 40,000.

While the study was published weeks before US congressional elections, Burnham said it was not politically motivated.

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