A good reason not to count?

To the UK government's response to the recent study in the Lancet suggesting that 100,000 have died as a result of the war and Tony Blair's rejection of the call to count Iraqi deaths we might add the following from Mark Curtis:

"...Britain bears significant responsibility for around 10 million deaths since 1945...including Nigerians, Indonesians, Arabians, Ugandans, Chileans, Vietnamese..."