dahunan
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- Jan 10, 2002
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Originally posted by: Zebo
Originally posted by: dahunan
- NOW ON TO THE IRAQIS - AT LEAST 50,000 .. How many do you think were innocent?
Be careful with those numbers.
The Problem with sites like Iraq body count is they include sectarian violence which far and away and kill more Iraqis than anything, about 1500 a month. Next is common crimminals and murderers doing the killing. America is acting as no other country in history has ever acted to prevent civilian casualties in warfare. (to thier own peril IMO but that's another thread) Americans are literally taking casualties and acting as a buffer, to prevent casualties on the part of Iraqi civilians. I'd say the numbers of innocent civilains by Americans killed is less than 100 based on news stories. And I think I've read them all being a daily reader of antiwar.com who doesn't hesitate to highlight errant missles or thugs in fatigues.
The reason I chose the 50,000 number is because Mr. Bush was quoted as agreeing on that number.
It is hard to count the innocent when I don't think we should have even gone there and killed one person.
