U.S. Iraq war casualties reach new milestone

[Diomedes]

Hundreds of thousands were killed during the Iran war on both sides.  That's what the link says, Dio.

Also - I wasn't just talking about deaths.  I was talking about casualties of all kinds.  Rape, torture, starvation, disease. . . the whole bag of nightmares can be attributed to the actions of that psycho.

But if you want to nitpick with me over numbers, that's fine.  Obviously there's no way I can positively give you an exact number. 

Obviously, you're equivocating in the face of someone who challenges your ignorance, shifting what you meant, etc..  Obviously, you were mistaken.

[Geowhizzer]

Dio,

The Iraqi diplomat said roughly 2 million last night.  Can't say they're right (and yes, I know it's not a "neutral source"), or what the breakdown is.

[Rome]

Here's another link, Dio:

http://www.gbn.com/ArticleDisplayServlet.srv?aid=2400&msp=1242


Read my original post.  I included casualties in it, not just deaths.  It's pretty apparent you didn't read the post in its entirety and chose instead to focus on one element of it.

Millions of people were brutalized during his regime, period, end of story.

[SD_Eagle5]

Isn't he going to be in some sort of trouble for saying that?   

'Technically' he cannot get in trouble for voicing his opinion, but you better damn well believe he's gonna get shtein on from his CO on down.

[Rome]

Dio,

The Iraqi diplomat said roughly 2 million last night.  Can't say they're right (and yes, I know it's not a "neutral source"), or what the breakdown is.

Obviously that guy was just a puppet spouting propoganda.  Obviously.

[Geowhizzer]

Timeline of Hussein's reign from the New York Times:

[Diomedes]

Millions!!1!

[Diomedes]

this take on the event is well said:

Saddam to the gallows. It was an easy equation. Who could be more deserving of that last walk to the scaffold - that crack of the neck at the end of a rope - than the Beast of Baghdad, the Hitler of the Tigris, the man who murdered untold hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis while spraying chemical weapons over his enemies? Our masters will tell us in a few hours that it is a "great day" for Iraqis and will hope that the Muslim world will forget that his death sentence was signed - by the Iraqi "government", but on behalf of the Americans - on the very eve of the Eid al-Adha, the Feast of the Sacrifice, the moment of greatest forgiveness in the Arab world.

But history will record that the Arabs and other Muslims and, indeed, many millions in the West, will ask another question this weekend, a question that will not be posed in other Western newspapers because it is not the narrative laid down for us by our presidents and prime ministers - what about the other guilty men?

No, Tony Blair is not Saddam. We don't gas our enemies. George W Bush is not Saddam. He didn't invade Iran or Kuwait. He only invaded Iraq. But hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are dead - and thousands of Western troops are dead - because Messrs Bush and Blair and the Spanish Prime Minister and the Italian Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister went to war in 2003 on a potage of lies and mendacity and, given the weapons we used, with great brutality.

In the aftermath of the international crimes against humanity of 2001 we have tortured, we have murdered, we have brutalised and killed the innocent - we have even added our shame at Abu Ghraib to Saddam's shame at Abu Ghraib - and yet we are supposed to forget these terrible crimes as we applaud the swinging corpse of the dictator we created.

from this op-ed:  http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article2112555.ece

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I was actually wondering when the first leftist on this board would cast W in the same light with Saddam and ask why they don't deserve the same fate.  Typical.  Predictable.  Hyperbolical.


(but not without the slightest shred of merit, which is the only reason why something like it gets published)

[ice grillin you]

how is bush that much different tho...the only difference is bush killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people in another country while sadaam did it in his own country

bush is torturing people all over the world...from abu ghrib to secret cia camps to guantanamo

he is slaughtering gobs of innocent people in iraq every day

all for his own perverted reasons...probably a lot of the same reasons sadaam killed and tortured people

[BigEd76]

First leaked video!

He drops around 1:37....

[Diomedes]

U.S.A.!!  U.S.A.!!

[Rome]

pVVn3d!

[Diomedes]

how is bush that much different tho...

He's American, which means God is on his side, that's how it's different.  Get in line, terrorist lover.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

how is bush that much different tho...

He's American, which means God is on his side, that's how it's different.  Get in line, terrorist lover.

Speaking of getting in line, you leftists are pretty good at patting each other on the back also.