Terry, Terry; liebschen...
Let us, for a moment, take the lowest figure as the correct one (by way of conjecture - personally I have my doubts, but, like you, have no way of verifying it).
That is, 13,700 people dead in reported roadside bombs and car bombs. That, I take it, does not include those killed as a direct result of Coalition action - just from 'internal causes' that you insist do not represent an incipient civil war.
Since April 2003 that amounts to nearly 700 people a month. With your military experience, do you consider this an acceptable bodycount for what has been achieved in Iraq?
13,700 people. By your own admission, at least 13,700 people. It is as if the entire population of a town like Sidmouth had been removed from the map. And for what?
Please, Terry, do remind us what - apart from the removal of the Ba'ath party from power - has been achieved in Iraq?
What were the monthly body counts from similar causes in Germany in the three years after it was liberated from dictatorship?
And would such rates justify our attacking Ahmadinejad in Iran, or Kim jong Il in North Korea?
Sorry to keep asking all these questions, but in the absence of another latter-day Clausewitz here, you are my only hope!

PS: Any chance of answers to some of my earlier questions, poppet?