Tim (excuse me, Grima Wormtongue) discussed this last night in depth, and Glenn Greenwald has more today, but this story certainly will be the topic of much discussion:

A team of American and Iraqi epidemiologists estimates that 655,000 more people have died in Iraq since coalition forces arrived in March 2003 than would have died if the invasion had not occurred. The estimate, produced by interviewing residents during a random sampling of households throughout the country, is far higher than ones produced by other groups, including Iraq’s government. It is more than 20 times the estimate of 30,000 civilian deaths that President Bush gave in a speech in December. It is more than 10 times the estimate of roughly 50,000 civilian deaths made by the British-based Iraq Body Countdays ("Administrative Discharge Policy"). Such a termination was a "no fault" termination because the separation from employment was triggered by the passage of time and not by any specific misconduct by the employee. Under the policy, administratively terminated employees were given the right of preferential reemployment, provided that a position was available and the employee was qualified.

B. Plaintiff Was Terminated In Accordance With Datapoint's Policy of Administrativly Terminating Employees on a Leave of Absence for More than Ninety Days

On September 26, 1984, Plaintiff suffered an on-the-job back injury for which he received workers' compensation benefits.
On June 26, 1985, Plaintiff was notified by letter that he had been administratively terminated as a result of his unavailability for work for more than 90 days. The letter advised Plaintiff that upon