ESTIMATES, FOR WHATEVER THEY'RE WORTH. A British polling agency released a new study this week that suggests that even the highest estimates of Iraqi deaths so far have been far below the actual toll. The poll, conducted by a group called ORB, asked 1,462 adult Iraqis, "How many members of your household, if any, have died as a result of the conflict in Iraq since 2003?" Based on their responses, researchers believe that the death toll so far in Iraq is around 1.2 million. While the U.S. military has claimed a 55 percent reduction in the number of civilian deaths resulting from sectarian violence since the surge, neither the U.S.