Have 600,000 Iraqis died violently since 2003?

Not exactly. I'm saying that the Lancet report is being misused as some sort of tool of vengence to equate to "civilian deaths at the hands of coalition forces," to further stigmatize the war effort. If you type that in to a search engine, blog after blog is misrepresenting the issue. But I also find it unfair to count non-violent deaths that do not pertain to either sectarian violence or collateral damage that incured due to US forces. As well, one has to ask whether or not insurgents, who are clear combatants, are not being grouped into the civilian deaths. And this especially because 'gunshot' is listed as the number one cause of death. A new study asserts that roughly 600,000 Iraqis have died from violence since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, a figure many times higher than any previous estimate.