posted on Jan, 3 2011 @ 07:32 AM
reply to post by Nephi1337
Were these 66,000 civilians killed by NATO forces or a mixture of both NATO and the violent clashes between different terrorist fractions in the
country who were seeking to create a civil war? If you click through a few of your links you will eventually get to the raw data showing that of
these 66,000 civilians killed, 20,000 were IED (so terrorists) and 32,000 murdered (by whoever, probably mostly terrorists). Form your data it’s
really only possible to say that 2000 Iraqis have died as a result of indirect fire most of which is probably the result of NATO bombings. Not once
does this article directly link any of these deaths to the direct action of American forces, if you look over the data from wikileaks then it’s
possible to estimate 10,000 at the most for the period 2004 to 2010.
You have just picked out one nice paragraph and tried to blame America for all 100,000 deaths when that is not really true, most of the 66,000 deaths
are as a result of the de facto state of civil war Iraq was at for a large part of the time that data was collected. You are also forgetting that
these terrorists are living in Iraqi communities and using them effectively as human shields, then going out and attacking NATO forces as a result
when NATO fights back there is inevitably collateral damage but if the terrorists weren’t hiding amongst the general population in the first place
that wouldn’t happen. Basically you have ignored very other contributing factor for these deaths and just blamed the great Satan because it suits
you. If you bothered to do some research you would realise that allot of deaths in Iraq are the result of terrorist activity, if the terrorists had
left in 2004, we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.
You cannot say all of these deaths are the fault of America, from 2004 onwards. Most of these deaths are the fault of terrorists; you just like to
pick out the numbers that suit you.