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The Iraq war lasted much longer than WW2, and more Iraqui civilians died than US soldiers in WW2, though granted it's still a small number compared to what Russ
by drumdance 11y ago
The Iraq war lasted much longer than WW2, and more Iraqui civilians died than US soldiers in WW2, though granted it's still a small number compared to what Russia and others lost.
- adventured 11y agoThat's not accurate. The Iraqi body count project concluded 174,000 Iraqis died due to the conflict (both the invasion and civil war), between 2003 and 2013 (with between 112,000 and 123,000 being civilians). The Associated Press reached a similar number, based on the Iraqi Health Ministry. The reports claiming upwards of a million died aren't even remotely credible, and were all based on extremely small household surveys. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War
- chimprich 11y agoThat's not accurate. The Iraq Body Count project only counted cases in which individuals killed were specifically recorded in the media. By their own admission this was intended as a lower bound estimation and likely to exclude a large proportion of deaths. The only scientific peer-reviewed studies ought to be more accurate and estimate much higher numbers of deaths.