From The BBC:
Tens of thousands of people have died in Iraq since the US-led invasion of March 2003. But it is unclear how many Iraqi lives have been lost. More than 4,300 coalition soldiers have died - 4,000 of them Americans. US forces do not keep complete records of civilians killed.
The Iraqi government does not keep precise records. Health ministry estimates in November 2006 ranged from 100,000 to 150,000 dead. This contrasts with a survey of Iraqi households in the Lancet, which suggested about 655,000 Iraqis had died in the war by July 2006. A survey published by a UK-based polling agency Opinion Research Business in September 2007 suggested up to 1.2m people might have died because of the conflict.
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My Comment: Decades of rule by Saddam Hussein and his gang of murderers, war with Iran for 8 years, the First Gulf War, Al Qaeda death squads, religious and cultural intolerance, economic depression, no proper civil services, Sunni and Shiite death squads ..... it is amazing that many people still stayed behind. If I had no future, money, or hope .... I would high-tailed out of there a long time ago.
When I look at the above stats, you just know that most of those casualties were innocent civilians.
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