Lancet indeed gives those numbers, other sources gives other numbers. Who's right? Probably we'll never know, but just for having the other numbers out there, h

Lancet indeed gives those numbers, other sources gives other numbers. Who's right? Probably we'll never know, but just for having the other numbers out there, here they are: - Lancet survey (March 2003 – July 2006): 654,965 (95% CI: 392,979–942,636) - Opinion Research Business (March 2003 – August 2007): 1,033,000 (95% CI: 946,258–1,120,000) - Iraq Family Health Survey (March 2003 – July 2006): 151,000 (95% CI: 104,000–223,000) - PLOS Medicine Study (March 2003 – June 2011): 405,000 (95% CI: 48,000–751,000) Only Opinion Research Business[1] seems to put the upper bound above 1 million. Rather than going for the "Lancet Surveys" page on Wikipedia, you'll probably get a better view when reading through the general page of "Casualties of the Iraq War" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War Also, hestefisk (which you're replying to) are talking about Middle East, not just Iraq. US sure has killed a lot more people in Middle East than just the ones that died in Iraq. > being caught in the middle of a civil war is challenging Not sure we're talking about the same war here. As far as I know, the US invaded both Afghanistan and Iraq in recent times (so no civil war), pretty sure we're referring to those events (post 9/11), not the civil wars that were happening there before that.