[tangent-man]

'It wasn't 1M, it was about 1/5 of that. I'm not of course justifying the loss of life, however it behooves us to speak precisely instead of hyperbolically.'

Yeh? Source pls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

[arcticbull]

It was linked as [1]. Your own source states a range of 0.15-1.0333M and clarifies "all estimates of Iraq War casualties are disputed."