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>"make the first six months of the Iraqi campaign look downright humane " Why first six month? To hide the real cost in human lives? from - https://en.wikiped
by FpUser 4y ago
>"make the first six months of the Iraqi campaign look downright humane "
Why first six month? To hide the real cost in human lives?
from - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
"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). "
This sure qualifies for Nobel Peace award.
>"There is no "morally superior" war.
Totally agree (except when fighting against aggression force)
>"And even if the US' were equivalent, that doesn't justify Russia's."
Agree again.
- deaddodo 4y ago> Why first six month? Because that's about as long as the Russian war has been going on. It's called comparing like to like.
- FpUser 4y agoWell then it is too early to compare, wars do not have to follow the same course. We know approximately what happened in Iraq. We know zilch about when and how this one will end. Besides Iraq war was total disaster in terms of human suffering. You can't whitewash it using situation in Ukraine.