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Perspective
For some perspective, imagine Blacksburg happening in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and D.C. all in one day. That is what happened in Iraq today.
Now imagine that, over the past four years, 650,000 American civilians had died either directly or indirectly as the result of similar acts of violence--that is the estimate of Iraqi civilian deaths caused by the war since March of 2003, according to a study conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Al Mustansiriya University in Baghdad (read more about this study at the Bloomberg School of Public Health's website).