Lost Count

Researchers rushed a rigorous study of Iraqi civilian casualties into print. Is that why it was dismissed as pure politics?

By LILA GUTERMAN

When more than 200,000 people died in a tsunami caused by an Asian earthquake in December, the immediate reaction in the United States was an outpouring of grief and philanthropy, prompted by extensive coverage in the news media.

Two months earlier...

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