Don't get me wrong, 9,250 civilian Iraqi deaths due to the US-led coalition is a tragically high number. But it well short of the hundreds-of-thousands that the anti-war coalition has been putting forward.
Also,
...Most of these occurred during the invasion phase, which it counts as ending on 1 May 2003.
Which makes sense. I am not sure how they parsed out civilians from combatants either.
On a completely unrelated note:
... The Washington-based Coalition for International Justice (CIJ) and experts from Northwestern and Toronto Universities estimate that 140,000 people have been killed by Sudanese government forces and their proxy militia and 250,000 Darfur civilians have died from either disease, starvation or exposure.
Since the United Nations is determined to do absolutely nothing about this I hope for another "illegal invasion". Sure, "war is never the answer", but considered these people are being killed by people wielding machetis, while riding camels, it wouldn't take much of the legendary Canadian peacekeepers to stop this. For the life of me I can't figure out why we are failing our "never again" pledge.
And for all you "no war for oil" people (sick of my quotations yet) the reason that China vetoes any force in Sudan is their oil interests.
