100,000 Dead—or 8,000 - How many Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the war?

Slate ^ | Oct. 29, 2004 | Fred Kaplan

[Cobra64]

Have any of these scorekeepers ever heard of London, Dresden, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Berlin, Auschvitz, Daschau?

Feel free to add to the list. I'm sure it would go to the basement.

[Cobra64]

I'm with on that sentiment.

[MikefromOhio]

How about Rome when the Goths finally got to it?

Stalingrad in World War 2

Any city in Poland.....

[piasa]

They'd get their food and water from the same place they've been getting it all along while under seige- Baghdad. Not to mention the US and aid organizations have been outside the city ready to provide water and other essentials for those who chose to leave all along. (It's part of the reason supporters were able to resupply the insurgents, unfortunately.)

[piasa]

Hmmm, when a car bomb goes off in some town in Iraq, and 15 little kids are blown to smitherians...is that somehow the US military's fault?

Why, yes, of course. If it wasn't for us those 15 kids would be in children's prisons - um, I mean village reeducation centers, or would be happily whiling away their early years in some bureaucrat's pedophile-playpen, or be recruited into the Fedeyeen Saddam to be trained in how to torture and bomb other more useless Kurdish kids.

[dirtboy]

a free and democratic country since 60 years due to your grandfathers that helped rebuilding it after defeating it.

Yeah, and the death toll in that war was far worse and the civilian casualties were far greater. This "study" is a load of bovine excrement.

[EllaMinnow]

I'd been wondering where the DUmmies got the "100,000 Iraqi civilians killed by the United States" that they love to throw around recklessly, accusing President Bush of genocide.

Now I know it's as far out in left field as all their other "facts."