R.I.P. Saddam Hussein.....

655,000 total excess deaths up to July 2006?from the second Lancet survey of mortality (October 2006). Total deaths (civilian and non-civilian) include all excess deaths due to increased lawlessness, degraded infrastructure, poor healthcare, etc. [1]

A minimum of 51,897 to 57,452 civilian deaths up to 27 December, 2006?as compiled from English-language media reports by the Iraq Body Count project (IBC). Reported civilian deaths due to insurgent/military action and increased criminal violence. [2]

100,000 to 150,000?estimate by Iraq's Health Minister in November 2006, based on extrapolating the recent 2006 rate of 100 deaths per day recorded in hospitals and morgues backward to March 2003. War-related deaths (civilian and non-civilian), and deaths from criminal gangs. [3]

"At least 50,000 Iraqis have died violently"?as of June 2006. "Many more Iraqis are believed to have been killed but not counted because of serious lapses in recording deaths. ... The [Los Angeles] Times attempted to reach a comprehensive figure by obtaining statistics from the Baghdad morgue and the Health Ministry and checking those numbers against a sampling of local health departments for possible undercounts." [4]

U.S. armed forces 2,980 dead. 22,401 wounded in action, of which 10,050 were unable to return to duty within 72 hours. 6,640 non-hostile injuries and 18,183 diseases (both requiring medical air transport). As of December 27, 2006. [5] [6]

Coalition deaths by hostile fire. 2,591 of the 3,229 coalition military deaths, including 2,404 of the 2,980 U.S. deaths. As of December 27, 2006. [7] [8]
Some of the 18-20,000 private military contractors and armed guards in Iraq, many of them working for the U.S. Department of Defense, have also died, though their status as civilian is controversial.

On March 16, 1988, the Kurdish town of Halabja was attacked with a mix of mustard gas and nerve agents, killing 5,000 civilians, and maiming, disfiguring, or seriously debilitating 10,000 more. (see Halabja poison gas attack) [16]. The attack occurred in conjunction with the 1988 al-Anfal campaign designed to reassert central control of the mostly Kurdish population of areas of northern Iraq and defeat the Kurdish peshmerga rebel forces. The United States now maintains that Saddam ordered the attack to terrorize the Kurdish population in northern Iraq ([17]), but Saddam's regime claimed at the time that Iran was responsible for the attack[13] and the US supported the claim until the early 1990s.