100,000 is a very conservative estimate. The real number is probably over 600,000. Moreover, it is confirmed that 8% of their civilian population have migrated to neighboring countries. That's over 2 million citizens that are today, living outside of their native country and pretty much living like nomads.jmog wrote:1. 100,000 is just an estimate, not a count. It is also not just civilians, it includes enemy combatants and civilians killed by Iraqi's themselves with road side bombs, etc.bigmanbt wrote:
Well, God has never shown me a damn thing, because he doesn't exist. I won't claim to talk to God directly, like good ole GW said he did, haha. But we'd have spared numerous American and Middle Eastern lives, saved massive amounts of money which would have kept the deficit down, and with an emphasis on a strong DEFENSE, pretty sure nothing would have happened. 2,900 civilians died in 9/11 (and it was horrible), over 100,000 civilians have died in Iraq since we've been there. We've had not attacks like 9/11 again, and it's not because we are fighting there, it's because we've secured our homeland better. 9/11 was a once in a century type thing.
We can accomplish much more with peace than we can with war. ~Ron Paul~ We've done better with Vietnam and Korea since the wars than we ever did during the wars or shortly after. Peace works.
2. One could make the argument that 100,000 Iraqi's dead is less than what would have been dead if Hussein was still in power since some estimates put his own number in his 23 years at 800,000 Iraqi's dead.
The US has never seen a major city blown to bits. With the exception of France, no post WWII European country has invaded with force and of deadly destruction. They have seen the brutal realities of war up front and close. The US experienced the horror of 9-11...which in comparison to the death and destruction war causes, is small, tiny potatoes.
Over in Iraq, their people experienced a 9-11 every single week for years.
