Explains a lot.
"Who is actually killing almost all of the innocent Iraqis in Iraq?"
We were, up until recently when the "insurgents" started.
According to IraqBodyCount, the civilian death toll from insurgents, terrorists, militias, and criminals exceeded that of the Coalition around May of 2003, and, with a couple of exceptions like the invasion of Fallujah, has exceeded it ever since. Numbers in early years show ratios floating around ten to one. As I described in my post, the ratio over the past year was over fifty to one.
We upset what was already functioning and messed it up completely.
What was already "functioning" was a regime that is still far ahead of the war in number of its own citizens killed, never mind invasions of surrounding nations and other things. It's amazing how easy it is to dazzle someone with a flying kite.
"Out of the 26,000 civilian deaths tallied up for the fourth year of the war, about 500 were the result of direct Coalition action."
LOL And the other 25,500 just killed themselves, eh?
I already explained who killed the rest. Slowly, in fact.
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"I don't have to 'think' about it, I know."
The whole thread (60 posts)
- Why Americans murder each other.
- Lots of truth there
- Simple answer: tolerate
- "So much death. What can men do against such reckless hate?"
- Another POV, from a 20-something source (long)
- Cultural and psychological anchor points.
- Only in a one-religion town.
- re: Only in a one-religion town.
- I heard that growing up.
- re: Only in a one-religion town.
- Only in a one-religion town.
- Interesting post
- Good Points, MA
- Cultural and psychological anchor points.
- re: Why Americans murder each other.
- ABSOLUTELY, TB.
- Typical authoritarian behavior
- Yeah, stoner culture is something we really need to condone.
- Hmmmph..and bigotry culture is something we really need to condone (n/t)
- Missing the point. Think: Prohibition.
- Most of my friends are or were stoners.
- re: Typical authoritarian behavior
- Yeah, stoner culture is something we really need to condone.
