Estimated Iraqi civillian deaths stand at around 10,000 right now since the heavy fighting and the overwhelming of the hospitals in Baghdad and Basra. The anarchy currently ruling the streets of major Iraqi cities is sure to kill many more until we get our **** together and impose some order.
Estimated Iraqi SOLDIER dead are between 5 and 15,000. Many bodies were buried during "Shock and Awe" and many more are unaccounted for. The numbers of paramilitary deaths as yet remains unclear.
Just a random factoid, the casualties in the Iraqi army (largely forcibly conscripted) in the first Gulf War was 100,000, many of those inflicted when the Iraqis were in full retreat.
I think that the Iraqi people deserve freedom, but they did not deserve to be delivered freedom via a M.O.A.B. or bunker buster, or the 120mm depleted uranium shell of an abrams.. I think that the way this war was conducted and started was wrong, in violation of both American Law and International Law, and unless the Bush administration does a complete turnaround and seriously starts working to make Iraq a bastion of freedom and good quality of life this war will only breed more hatred against the American people.
Of course, I rather doubt that Bush and his neo-conservative, murderous allies will follow through with their promises. But rather abandon Iraq to it's own devices much like they have done in Afghanistan; keeping us in a perpetual state of war so the country doesn't have time before Dubya's next election to realize how much he has ****ed up the country.
Hell, we're already priming Syria and Iran as the next targets. And North Korea is practically clamouring for a war with that crazy little bastard Kim Jong Il as it's regime leader.
EDIT: Spank. Buddy, don't watch FAUX or Sky news, man. It's nothing but a propaganda tool since this american administration has taken over. I'd reccommend Reuters, C-SPAN, or
Arab News