Wouldn't you just LOVE to believe most of those deaths were due to insurgents?
It would give you a warm fuzzy feeling and you could still believe we were doing a noble thing in Iraq... unfortunately that isnt the case:
Iraqi officials said about two-thirds of the Iraqi deaths were caused by the U.S. side and police; the remaining third died from insurgent attacks.
Although most of the dead are believed to be civilians, the data include an unknown number of police and Iraqi national guardsmen. Many Iraqi deaths, however, are never reported. Charts show the number of casualties surging in August and September.
According to the ministry, the interim Iraqi government recorded 3,487 Iraqi deaths in 15 of the country's 18 provinces from April 5 (when the ministry began compiling the data) until Sept. 19. Of those, 328 were women and children under 12. Another 13,720 Iraqis were injured, the ministry said.
This doesnt count the deaths due to other ramifications of our invasion, which are very likely even larger
For more info see:
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000642386
Let's see how you respond... Maybe by claiming that Saddam hypothetically might have killed even more Iraqis in that time span? A debatable claim at best... and not one I would feel good about having as my best defense of this otherwise unjustified war....