«But at the same time thousands of others -- men, women, the elderly and the very young -- have been killed or maimed with far less fanfare. No one knows how many. They are Iraqi civilians, and the Americans and the British do not bother to keep count of the people they have "liberated" and then killed.»
(Kim Sengupta e Marie Woolf, Independent, 17-05-2004)
Estimativas conservadoras apontam para cerca de 10 000 mortos civis iraquianos (não incluindo portanto os militares durante a invasão). Estes falharam a "libertação". As baixas mortais entre as forças de ocupação são inferiores a 900.
