That's it? The way the media shows it, you'd think it was in the millions.
Are you saying that fewer people died violently, in all of Iraq, than in a smaller battle of the American Civil War?
More to the point: how many of the 16,000 "violent" deaths were of insurgents?
Good question.
1) How many are, as was said, "garden variety" murders? To claim there are no petty-criminal-, jealous-husband-, or angry-neighbour-murders in Iraq is laughable. Not all murders are of political nature.
2)How many terrorists/insurgents/militiamen are included in this numbers. (That may include those killed by Coalition/Iraqi Forces and those killed by other militias).