October 26th, 2005 | 
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This report is startling…probably over 30,000 dead Iraqi civilians. Now over 2000 dead American Soldiers.
But, what the following report does NOT state, and what NO ONE has attempted to break out of the above numbers is this.
Of the 30,000 dead civilians…HOW MANY were killed by THEIR OWN COUNTRYMEN?
In the story below, THREE car bombs killed mostly civilians. In most other stories about car bombs, the numbers are ALWAYS “mostly civilians”.
My point is that AMERICANS have NOT killed 30,000 civilians. No where close…I don’t know enough to state exactly how many WERE killed by Americans, and no one else does either.
I think it’s very inappropriate to make a blanket statement that basically says we’ve traded 2000 Americans for 30,000 civilians.
If the American forces weren’t there, then how much HIGHER would the civilian death counts be?
I believe it would be much higher…and thank God for letting the US be able to help save a nation of people from the tyranny that they were under, and in many cases certain death for just BELIEVING differently than the leadership. Remember what happened in Rwanda….Remember Stalin, and Lenin…Remember Hitler.
Don’t EVER let one man have that much power ever again to decide the fate of entire generations of a people that just want to be free.
A superpower must show its force, by NOT using it when it might, and ONLY using it when it must. The US does this better than any nation on the planet.
IN IRAQ, RISING CIVILIAN TOLL IS WAR’S SILENT, SINISTER PULSE
By SABRINA TAVERNISE
NYT Express
10/25/2005
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The scene was grimly familiar. Three car bombs in rapid succession sent plumes of smoke into the evening sky. The target was foreign reporters and contractors inside two hotels here. But the victims, as is often the case, were Iraqis.
The war here has claimed the life of the 2,000th American soldier, but in the cold calculus of the killing here, far more Iraqis have been left dead. The figures vary widely, with Iraqi and American officials reluctant to release even the most incomplete of tallies. In one count, compiled by Iraq Body Count, a U.S.-based nonprofit group that tracks the deaths using news media reports, the total of Iraqi dead since the American invasion ranges from 26,690 to 30,051.
Anthony H. Cordesman, a military expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, a nonprofit research group, who has analyzed statistics of American deaths in Iraq, called the group’s count “the best guesstimate in town,” but warned that the figures were far from complete.
Monday’s bombs, which exploded near the Palestine and Sheraton Hotels in central Baghdad, added at least 10 people to the tally, according to Iraq’s Interior Ministry. They were coordinated for maximum damage, exploding just after sunset, when Iraqis were breaking their daily fast for Ramadan. The second bomb, carried in a Jeep Cherokee, killed the largest number of people, including a 19-year-old named Beshir, whose mother wandered aimlessly through the wreckage Monday night, searching for his body.
“He told me he would leave this dangerous area,” said the woman, who was crying and speaking to other women. “Death took him from me before he fulfilled his promise.”
The U.S. military said last week that sweeps it has conducted with Iraqi troops throughout Iraq have brought the number of suicide attacks down sharply, with 22 attacks in October, compared with 58 in June, not including Monday’s blasts.
But the drop in suicide attacks comes amid an overall rise in violence and a shift in the nature of the killing. Shortly after the Americans invaded, insurgent attacks were aimed almost exclusively at American troops, but as the months passed, Iraqis — civilians, police officers and soldiers — have suffered far greater losses, as insurgents, seeking maximum effect, focus their attacks on the softest targets.
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