Americans are literally taking casualties to prevent casualties on the part of Iraqi civilians. As a matter of fact, more American troops have been killed in the conflict than have civilians been killed by Americans. Somewhere along the way, however, the harsh reality began to sink in that America was acting as no other country in history has ever acted to prevent civilian casualties in warfare.
"enter IraqBod圜, an anti-war organization that was envisioned even before the Iraq War began, with the heady ambition of documenting each and every victim of American aggression in order to turn public opinion against the action to remove Saddam.
"The Real Iraq Body Count: What You're Not Supposed to Know", But maybe their politics will prevent them doing a proper job. I think they might be trying to change this, and collect the perpetrator data in retrospect. It is only "unknown" because the Iraq Body Count Of course the perpetrator was known at the time. The vast majority of their entries today are still "unknown" perpetrator. Then not a single civilian would have died since then.įor many years, they never bothered to record who was doing the killing. Since America started the war in the first place.īut why not blame the jihadis and Baathists for starting the resistance? The thinking behind the bizarre logo seems to be that America is ultimately to blame.There is strong evidence they did most (80 or 90 percent) of the killing. Why not a picture of a jihadi suicide bomber? And yet its logo has always been a picture of a US plane dropping bombs!.The Iraq Body Count has always included killings by the enemy in its totals.Is a very flawed project, that could be so much better if not for their politics. It's hard to take their numbers seriously. Rather than the ones who are trying to protect You know, the ones who are actually killing people, No, you morons, the Iraqi jihad is directly responsible. "Iraqi Deaths Due to the Iraqi Resistance, Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia". Unless you are happy blaming the Americans for every single crime an Arab ever commits.ĭisplays its political bias for all to see. The result, it is safe to say, will not fit into any neat anti-American narrative. As time goes on, though, the academics and historians will produce proper dead counts, showing who killed who.trying to blame the US and UK for the dead. In the early years of the war, the dead counts that emerged were clearly political.We would not tolerate counts of WW2 dead that just listed numbers, without explaining who killed them. Step one for any count of the dead is surely who killed who.The Iraqi troops and police fighting against the jihad. Iraq body counts often confuse 1,2,3 and 4 all together, How many lives have been saved by deposing Saddam?.How many civilians have the enemy killed? (bad, but not our moral responsibility).How many allied troops have the enemy killed?.How many civilians have the allies killed?.How many enemy combatants have the allies killed? (good, the more the better).There are several separate issues in Iraq body counts:
How many died in Iraq? How many lives did the Iraq war save?
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