Roughly a QUARTER of Iraq population have been killed or displaced. Plus 1.5 million Iraqi deaths during the 12 years of US imposed starvation sanctions, accompanied with sporadic US bombing. “Pentagon air power unleashed 110,000 aerial sorties in 1991, targeting every industrial complex, communications center, reservoir, pumping station, filtration plant and food processing plant in the country, along with schools, hospitals and housing.“ Assassinations of thousands of prominent Iraqis took place. 284 university academics were assassinated since April 2003, last crimes reported in May 2008. They were Iraqi intellectuals, “a key section of the secular middle class in Iraq — a class that has largely resisted the US occupation of Iraq and refused to be co-opted by the so-called “political process“ or Iraq’s US-installed puppet government. Academics are not the only ones being killed: 311 teachers killed in the past 4 months, 182 pilots, 416 senior military officers killed in the first 3 months of 2006. 20.000 people kidnapped since the beginning of 2006. It were the Iraqi intellectuals who asked us (Spanish Campaign against the Occupation and for the Sovereignty of Iraq - CEOSI) to start a campaign to create awareness for this problem.“ From Chile and Salvador to Iraq, US has not changed its methods of installing democracy. Except for the collaborators living in the Green Zone, Iraqi people lacks even access to drinking water and sanitation. 70 percent of Iraqi children are not in school. Once the most industrialized and prosperous country in the region, with quality free education, is almost destroyed.

Rodrigo, The last census in Iraq was in 1997. It wasn't nationwide, because it excluded the Kurds, but it was nearly nationwide. As there hasn't been one since then it is impossible to try to use comparative data between 2 of them to try to discern the number of Iraqis who died as a result of the war. The next Iraqi consensus is scheduled for 2010. Furthermore, prior to the US invasion, the US sanctions were responsible for killing about 350,000 people. Saddam played an essential role in this by refusing many oil for food exchanges that could've saved his people, but nevertheless the sanctions were also an essential cause of this starvation. This is something else the US is, and other participating parties are, very guilty of, but nevertheless, deaths between 1997 and 2002 were not caused by the invasion. At any rate, clarify who did the study you speak of so that we can have a better idea of the veracity of its conclusions. I've not read about a 1.5 million death toll anywhere in my research.