Amnesty International continues to bemoan the number of Iraqi civilians killed as a result of the regime change:

More than 10,000 Iraqi civilians are thought to have been killed since 20 March 2003 as a direct result of the military intervention in Iraq, either during the war or in violent incidents during the subsequent occupation. The number is an estimate - no one in authority in Iraq is willing or able to catalogue the killings. "We don't have the capacity to track all civilian casualties", admitted US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt in February 2004.(2) A different attitude has been shown towards non-Iraqi civilians and soldiers who have been killed.

Each death is itself a tragedy, and this is a truly staggering number. That is, until you see these numbers from the Iraq Human Rights Center:

THE numbers are obviously inexact. But the new Iraq Human Rights Centre in Kadhimiya has calculated that more than 70,000 people would have died in the past year had Saddam [Hussein] still been in charge. Even if that is too high, UNICEF argued that sanctions were killing 5000 children a month. Liberation ended sanctions at once, so if UNICEF is right, that would be 60,000 lives saved in the past 12 months.

If Amnesty International chooses to bemoan the fact that the war and its aftermath resulted in 50 to 60 thousand less civilian deaths, that is their right. I won't even point out that their number probably includes some who were involved in insurrection and committing acts of terrorism.