>>Just wondering--do the US casualty figures include Blackwater personnel?<<

No. "Contractors" (i.e. mercenaries) are not included in the official death toll.

>>The advice to ministers was not that the report was accurate and reliable. The recommendation was that ministers should exercise "caution in publicly criticising the study", they definitely did not recommend that the study should not be challenged or criticised.<<

You do that by presenting evidence, Sherlock. Bush and Blair are simply dismissing it without bothering with little annoyances like evidence--as usual. The truth is, they have no evidence to the contrary. They concede the methodology used is sound. It is therefore accurate until somebody can PROVE it isn't. True?