At Last, Something Approaching an Honest Count on Civilian Casualties

150. That's right, 150 Iraqi civilians lost their lives during the entire war on Iraq. My source is the Red Crescent, the Arab version of the Red Cross.
And who knows how many of those were inflicted by Iraqi soldiers. We know that the blast in the Baghdad market was caused by Iraqi ordnance. We know that Iraqis shot fleeing Iraqi civilians as they tried to leave Basra.
As Boris Johnson phrases it: "It was, therefore, a piece of utilitarian arithmetic. You had to weigh the disasters of war against the nightmare of life under Saddam. You had to set the misery of old Iraq against the uncertainties of a free country. That is the calculation; and it would be quite easy to construct a powerful case for believing that the exercise has been a disaster. You don’t need to be Robert Fisk. You just shut one eye in Iraq, and look around you."
In any event, during the war, civilians died at about 1/20 of the rate that they died during peace under Saddam's reign of terror.