"(Yes, Bobert, you keep referring to all 100,000 as civilians.)"

The figure of 100,000 came from the British medical publication entitled "The Lancet".

Hubby, stop with the bullshit, OK? I am on occasion a lib; on other occasions I am to the right of Stalin. Regardless of how many civilians were killed in Iraq, as one poster said above, one is too many. The US has no reason to be in Iraq--at least none that the government ever mentioned. Let me ask you one thing: Hussein has been taken down and no WMD were found. So why the hell is the US still there?