"When the poll was conducted earlier this month, a little more than 3,100 U.S. troops had been killed fighting in Iraq. The midpoint estimate among those polled was right on target, at about 3,000

Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at more than 54,000 and could be much higher; some unofficial estimates range into the hundreds of thousands. The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq reports more than 34,000 deaths in 2006 alone.

"You have to look at who's doing the killing," said Neal Crawford, a restaurant manager in Suttons Bay, Mich., who guessed that about 10,000 Iraqis had been killed. "If these people are dying because a roadside bomb goes off or if there's an insurgent attack in a marketplace, it's an unfortunate circumstance of war — people die."

Far from a vague statistic, the death toll is painfully real for many Americans. Seventeen percent in the poll know someone who has been killed or wounded in Iraq. And among adults under 35, those closest to the ages of those deployed, 27 percent know someone who has been killed or wounded"

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LazySmoking420 Reviewed by LazySmoking420 on . Americans underestimate Iraqi death toll "When the poll was conducted earlier this month, a little more than 3,100 U.S. troops had been killed fighting in Iraq. The midpoint estimate among those polled was right on target, at about 3,000 Iraqi civilian deaths are estimated at more than 54,000 and could be much higher; some unofficial estimates range into the hundreds of thousands. The U.N. Assistance Mission for Iraq reports more than 34,000 deaths in 2006 alone. "You have to look at who's doing the killing," said Neal Crawford, Rating: 5