Jaysus. First google entry and he stops looking. :-) OK, you find the littlest numbers, I'll find the biggest. Try wiki. Here's my bit: Opinion Research Business (ORB) poll conducted August 12–19, 2007, estimated 1,033,000 violent deaths due to the Iraq War. The range given was 946,000 to 1,120,000 deaths. A nationally representative sample of approximately 2,000 Iraqi adults answered whether any members of their household (living under their roof) were killed due to the Iraq War. 22% of the respondents had lost one or more household members. ORB reported that "48% died from a gunshot wound, 20% from the impact of a car bomb, 9% from aerial bombardment, 6% as a result of an accident and 6% from another blast/ordnance. If that's too much for you, try the Lancet survey (same page). Trouble with "body counts" in wars, old chap, is that bodies get shoved in piles in ditches, in mass graves, rot in the heat, get lost or get missed. Or get blown to smithereens. Nice. But uncountable. You say tomatyto, I say tomahto. Wottevah. But the point I made in my post stands.
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