Let's do ratios: 151,000 is to 27,499,638 as "X" is to 303,211,807. Answer: 1,664,930. That means the 151,000 Iraqi people dead out of the population of Iraq (27 million) would be equal to 1.7 million Americans dead out the population of the U.S. (303 million). Yes the 1.7 is rounded up, as we learned to do in fifth grade, but that takes into account the fact that the 151,000 figure is low.

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