Scott Ritter: Answers Questions On Ukraine & Russia Military Special Operation

Estimates of the casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms, and those estimates of different types of Iraq War casualties vary greatly.

Estimating war-related deaths poses many challenges.[1][2] Experts distinguish between population-based studies, which extrapolate from random samples of the population, and body counts, which tally reported deaths and likely significantly underestimate casualties.[3] Population-based studies produce estimates of the number of Iraq War casualties ranging from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 (per the Iraq Family Health Survey) to 1,033,000 excess deaths (per the 2007 Opinion Research Business (ORB) survey). Other survey-based studies covering different time-spans find 461,000 total deaths (over 60% of them violent) as of June 2011 (per PLOS Medicine 2013), and 655,000 total deaths (over 90% of them violent) as of June 2006 (per the 2006 Lancet study). Body counts counted at least 110,600 violent deaths as of April 2009 (Associated Press). The Iraq Body Count project documents 185,000–208,000 violent civilian deaths through February 2020 in their table. All estimates of Iraq War casualties are disputed.[4][5]

Oh jeez, this is real rich. The Russians have shown such Slavic cultural unity that the Poles, the Czechs, the Slovaks, the Hungarians, the Ukrainians, Romanians, Moldovans, and basically every other Slavic people except the Serbs and Belorussians want nothing to do with them ever again.

I think we're got a pretty good handle in what "slavic cultural unity" means to Russia. It means all slavs should be united under Russia whether they wish to be or not.

It also means that the Russian fetish with being ruled by a czar/dictator type means those other slavs must be ruled by that individual as well. And if any slav - Russian or otherwise - is deemed insufficiently committed to whatever is deemed "Slavic" policy at a given time, they must be either re-educated or liquidated.

I think that about sums it up. I

they are just ragheads, we're killing the ragheads and kids, civilians....shame on you for being alive. Boom, boom, boom, we'll roll through you and we'll do what we need to do.

Is that what we did in Iraq?

I remember General Norman Schwarzkopf actually saying that they rolled over the Iraqis.

Daniel wondered what happened to the estimated 6,000 Iraqi defenders who had vanished. "Where are the bodies?" he finally asked the First Division's public affairs officer, an army major. "What bodies?" the major replied.
Months later, Daniel and the world would learn why the dead had eluded eyewitnesses, cameras and video footage. Thousands of Iraqi soldiers, some of them firing their weapons from first world war-style trenches, had been buried by ploughs mounted on Abrams tanks. The tanks had flanked the lines so that tons of sand from the plough spoil had funnelled into the trenches. Just behind the tanks, straddling the trench line, came Bradleys pumping machine-gun bullets into Iraqi troops.
"I came through right after the lead company," said Colonel Anthony Moreno. "What you saw was a bunch of buried trenches with people's arms and legs sticking out of them. For all I know, we could have killed thousands."

From the Guardian:

'What I saw was a bunch of filled-in trenches with people's arms and legs sticking out of them. For all I know, we could have killed thousands'

He hit a bullseye in Iraq about WMD’s and nuclear inspections. He was just right...on...down the line. The people on FR were on here belittling him for going against the WoT. In all seriousness, it was a money siphon on America. The last 50 years in the USA has been a long running bank job. Our tills and banks are empty. We are living on a credit card where the bill is owed to our enemies.

Nice Opinion piece Scott.

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