Iraq: 63 % of the casualties were civilians

[Furunculus]

Although the invading forces - sorry, heroic liberators - made some large blunders that Furunculus has outlined, the reason for this is purely that the Insurgents turned cities intentionally into battlefields.

In Europe in the 19th Century one reason to fight on the plains was to avoid destroying the very things that were being fought over. Saddam fought by these rules and was annihilated in short order. The insurgents too note of this and so fought a different war. I've not got the figures to hand, but what are the civilian casualties in other guerilla wars? This would be more interesting to compare and contrast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War#Death_toll