The Next John Kerry is Being Born
Haunted by the civilian casualties he witnessed, Corporal Huze has become one of a small but increasing number of Iraq veterans who have formed or joined groups to oppose the war or to criticize the way it is being fought.
We have a new Vietnam for this generation, so why not a new John Kerry?
Young Corporeal Huze mentioned the extremely high civilian casualties we have caused as a reason for his opposition to the war.
Indeed.
posted by dillon at 8:44 AM
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As you can see the civilian casuality rate is quite low. Since you care so much for the citizens of Iraq I'm sure your estatic that there are roughly 8,000 more alive today because of our intervention. As you very well know Sadaam slaughtered around 12,000 citizens a year.
Hey,
All I can see is that you didn't even read you own bloody link regarding the civilian death rate. This is what you linked to.
There are no official numbers for Iraqi and other civilian casualties.True, you must know that the most exhaustive attemp to count civilian rates was done by the Lancet.
100,000 civilian deaths. And we're not done killing, not by a long shot. By the way, since you linked to CBSNews (which is surprising) I will link to it as well so you can see that the 100,000 number is quite high.
Did Saddam kill 12,000 civilians a year? I really don't know, he probably did. I'm not going defend Hussein. Where I think you're going with this is that it's good that he's gone because he was a very very bad man.
He is, he was, there are many many bad men in power. In Belarus, North Korea, Zimbabwe etc etc etc.
Perhaps the next time the president wants to wage a war of caprice, he can submit his top three dictators to depose, and we can all debate which one to attack.
How many people will the next dictator of Iraq kill when we are gone he comes to power?
It wasn't necessarily Saddam who killed the "12,000" a year. If that was the case, the biggest share was through the military. If he's being held accountable for that, there's a certain person who should be held accountable for killing up 100,000 because of "supposed WMD" and "ties to Al Qaida".
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