"With 30,000 sorties flown over Iraq after the initial invasion it's not credible that the death toll was slight..."

Bobert confuses the word "sorties" with the word "missions"

30,000 sorties means that on 30,000 occasions an aircraft took off and then that aircraft landed out of that number of flights there were only 505 assigned to bombing missions and those were almost totally against military targets the remainder were against time sensitive Government targets. Bobert wittered on about 3,000 missiles per day (Patriots IIRC) raining down on Baghdad in fact just over 800 missiles were fired in the entire conflict.

Now then Bobert can explain how many of those 30,000 "sorties" were flown where the aircraft flying those sorties were not even armed, transport flights, helicopter troop movements, recon flights, flights by tanker aircraft required for air-to-air refuelling, etc.

World War II = Tens of thousands of aircraft, over 1.5 million tons of bombs dropped on Germany alone and that resulted in slightly less than 600,000 fatalities in six years.

Iraq = 1800 aircraft of all types used for less that six months, with far lower weapons payloads and Bobert wants to convince us that this effort by 505 aircraft resulted in fatalities exceeding 1 million people - laughable.

Oh and before you wriggle Bobert your now totally discredited John Hopkins Study put those deaths down to US Bombing, the object of the George Soros financed study was after all to discredit the US administration of GWB and affect the 2004 Presidential election and the 2006 mid-terms.