Estimate is the best that anyone can do, T... Estimates are generally considered to be numbers that fall within a 10% deviation...

As fir silence, T... Give my poor ol' jillbilly butt a chance... Unlike you, I have to, ahhhhhhh, "work" (look that word up in Webster's if you need to...lol)...

But back to sources... Hey, I'll be the first to admit that figuring out how amny Iragis died is purdy much a crapshoot... I tend to see the upper ends as more believabler strictly from the fire power... Back in military school we had to take M.S.T. (Military Science Training) so I understand the realtionship between fire power and casualties... Of course, maybe all the folks who were sent over there forgot how to shoot straight... I mean, that's always a possibility but even if they had forgotten the rounds had to go somewhere...

Then we're down to the "if these assertions were true" whioch is what I have been saying all along here... That "if" become a monsterously bigass word here... So when you have various organizations trying put a number on the death toll and it comes down "if these assertions are trus" then for you to expect me to prove, or vice versa, that one study is the correct one over another is simply, ahhhhhh, lacking in all logic...

BTW, you never got around to giving an opinion on whether or not Bush or Blair's heads would come off if they were hanged as a result of being found guilty of war crimes???

I'm thinkin' that Tony's wouldn't but Bush's probably wood but it's kinda like the various sources that we have each referenced on the death toll... Kinda conjucture... But it's okay for you to voice an opinion on the head/no-head question... I won't ask you to "prove it"...

B~