Re: I Lost Track of This Post....But Here I Go
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Quick question I'm curious about....regarding the 1.2 million casualty figure.....how many of those would you estimate are civilian casualties as the direct result of US airstrikes?
I'm going to guess less than 1%. Am I close? Too high, too low?
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I'd guess you are in the neighborhood. For some time now most of the killing has been tribal.
The charge is not that the U.S. killed 1.2 million Iraqis. The implication is the people of Iraq are worse off now than they were under Saddam. In the ever-changing list of justifications for the war "at least the people are better off" was a trump card that was impossible to argue against. Now that argument can be made credibly, which is why it is important to discredit the casualty surveys.
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