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By whose count - Al Jazeera or one of your other trusted sources.


Standard reply.

Here's a link to the Washington Times:
washingtontimes.com/upi-b...-8991r.htm

It says:
According to an independent report, investigators found that 100,000 more civilian Iraqis -- men, women and children -- have died since the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003.

The study released Thursday by the U.K.-based Lancet cited air strikes by the United States military as the main source of violent deaths, but added that coalition forces on the ground, water-borne diseases, a "prevailing climate of violence," and the inaccessibility to hospitals as reasons for the inflated death toll.


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You forgot to put imo in front of that statement. What you do not seem to understand is that if we pull out the guy with the most hidden weapons comes to power. Great just what the world needs.


You forgot to put imo in front of that statement. If we don't pull out, Iraqis will continue to be slaughtered by their American liberators.

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I am curious though are you counting the women and children killed by the ieds laid by Saudis and Syrians. Are you also counting the men killed while attempting to protect their families from roving bands of Sunni thugs. And are you also counting those that are killed because the former members of the Republican Guard are using them as human shields. Just curious if these deaths are counted toward the American total.


The vast majority of Iraqi civilians have been killed by direct action by the American military. We are the ones with all of the firepower. We make air strikes in residential neighborhoods and use napalm on Iraqis. We are the ones creating the mass graves in Iraq today. What is going on in Iraq now is probably the most morally unconscionable act committed by our country since Vietnam.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans do not concern themselves with questions of morality, although they do like to keep score (body counts!) and support winning teams. There won't be any significant groundswell against the occupation until Americans start getting involuntarily drafted into combat. Then, suddenly, they'll protest our presence there.