> The point I was making is that the study is far from the last word and simply sighting its results as fact ignores every other source.

So far, despite being earth shattering, it appears to be the best estimate. I could have said "Is that worse that 66,000 dead Iraqis". Same point. Bush administration has done a lot of bad things that have hurt and killed a lot of people based on largely false premises. Just think of how successful the war on terror could have been if:
- the Iraq war money could have been spent on counter terrorism and counter insurgency in Afghanistan?
- the US hadn't lost the favour of moderate muslims by attacking Iraq based on false premises
- the CIA, dept of defence and the Bush administration hadn't been distracted by Iraq and could have focused brain and military power on the real war on terror
- the 200,000 troops could have been used to fight terrorists
- the Bush administration wouldn't have lost the backing of the American people by largely tricking them about Iraq
- the Bush administration alienating tradional allies by attacking Iraq largely based on false premises
- the secretary of defence and the vice president hadn't endorsed torture (water boarding and other violoations of the geneva convention) which almost certainly lead to what happened at Abu Grareb
- hadn't set up the Guantanamo prisons which violated prisoners rights to due processor which both alienated moderate muslims and traditional allies
- the bush administration hadn't set up (from what it appears) extraordinary rendition prisons in eastern europe, which alienationed tradition allies and moderate muslims