The figure of "38,000 civilian casualties" was from MAR 2003 to OCT 2006, the second time Lancet online was promoting made-up the figures, this time it was "650,000 - 850,000 civilian deaths". The web site Iraq Body Count, shown a few posts back, is clearly by an anti-war group, which makes the Lancet loons look as bad as most sane people have been saying. Their figure is about 10% of the Lancet online BS figure and is for a period 1 year longer.

The civilian deaths are from coalition action aimed at stopping Saddam's regular army and his special guards, but it also include those killed by terrorist infiltrators, jihadists and others. Some people have been killed for personal reasons, such as long-standing feuds and for property theft. Easy to kill your enemy and blame it on the US and Brits.