on edit, i want to include a note that the 100 thousand civilians dead figure was from a scientific study done by Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University. so you know the sources are well respected and credible.
<Britain has rejected an estimate by US researchers that about 100,000 Iraqi civilians may have died as a result of the war, agreeing with an Iraqi Government figure of a much smaller body count.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the estimate, in a report published late last month by British medical journal The Lancet, was based on imprecise data.
London supports an estimate from Iraq's Ministry of Health that 3,853 civilians were killed and 15,517 injured between April and October this year, Mr Straw said in a statement.
Those figures may include insurgents.
"While recognising the bravery and professionalism of those conducting the Lancet study, the Government does not accept its central conclusion, and continues to believe the most reliable figures for casualties in Iraq are those provided by Iraqi hospitals to the Iraqi Ministry of Health," Mr Straw said.>
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1246622.htm