[sonny]

Well?

[Old Fuff]

No, but it was considerably less then it could have been.

[SkunkApe]

They're not dead, they're "liberated". It was worth it, to get all those weapons of mass destruction.

Try to be a good patriot and don't ask these sorts of questions anymore.

[rrader]

More leftist idiocy:

They're not dead, they're "liberated". It was worth it, to get all those weapons of mass destruction.

Try to be a good patriot and don't ask these sorts of questions anymore.


Try to imagine how many Iraqi's will now avoid being gassed or executed by their government since the US has ousted Saddam.

[JohnBT]

I haven't seen anything that looks like an accurate number from an unbiased source.

You writing a book or just curious?

John

[DaveB]

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

db

[CZ-75]

Try to imagine how many Iraqi's will now avoid being gassed or executed by their government since the US has ousted Saddam.

While I don't doubt that is true, what the heck are we afraid of? The .gov should post the figures, then post the number of Iraqis killed by Saddam right next to it as a comparison.

[Lone_Gunman]

A better question than "how many were killed" is "does any one really care"

[jsalcedo]

Extrapolating from several sources....from begininng to end
6000 to 9000 civilians died.

Of course a bunch of those casualties were from Iraqi brutality,
retribution, and using civilians as human shields for soliders and
weaponry.

War has casualties, its a fact of life. Americans are fortunate to not have an invading army on our soil killing our women and children since 1812.

When dictators and tyrants have no regard for the populations
they govern its like a bank robber holding hostages. There is a chance some of them are going to get hurt.

Of course we could just let the robber have the bank and ALL the hostages and walk away.

[JohnBT]

"Americans are fortunate to not have an invading army on our soil killing our women and children since 1812."

I guess this means you don't count Mr. Lincoln and the War of Northern Aggression?

John

[sonny]

JohnBT.....You writing a book or just curious?
Nah...no book ...just trying to provide an evil gang of lying morons with some info that will dispute their claim that MILLIONS of civilians were killed in iraq.

[jsalcedo]

I stand corrected JohnBT, it is indeed difficult to get the public school brainwashing out of my head.

[Oatka]

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

I wrote and asked them if they will also be listing the names and have a running counter of those whose bodies are now being exhumed over there by the hundreds. I don't expect an answer.

As to Lone_Gunman's "does any one really care", it is probably only those who are in an absolute snit that we won with so few casualties.

[Erik]

"anyone know the current civilian death toll in the iraqi freedom war?"

Probably less than a single night's bombing of Dresden.

[SkunkApe]

I did a little checking on the Dresden raids, at it seems there is quite a bit of controversy surrounding the number of deaths. Estimates range from 18,000 to 250,000, with the higher numbers generally coming from the Germans.

Interestingly, the Dresden bombing attacks may have been the first large-scale deliberate attack aimed at the general citizenry, rather than on military forces or strategic targets.