Isn't the word 'collateral damage' just chillingly easy to use?....
As for the stats, having done a bit myself at uni, Lucern is correct in that 1,000 is a very reasonable size for a sample providing the base is good enough to extrapolate from. In the UK virtually every survey and poll you hear in the news is done by conducting a survey of 1,000 households so if you compare Iraq's population of 24 million with the UK's 60 million it's probably quite accurate.
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