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Originally posted by Cowperson+Aug 19 2004, 08:38 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Cowperson @ Aug 19 2004, 08:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-nfotiu@Aug 19 2004, 08:31 PM
13,000 reported civilian deaths! How about military personnel? and unreported deaths. That number could easily top 100,000. Although 13,000 civilian deaths is a pretty staggering number on its own. Especially in a country the size of Iraq. That is roughly 4 times the sept 11th death toll and 50 sept 11's would not have killed as many Iraqis on a percentage basis.
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Well, if you want to commit suicide with an argument like that, who am I to stop you?
Sure, Iraqi military deaths from the conflict were in the 10's of thousands but its also estimated Saddam's venture into Iran in the early 1980's led to the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi military personnel and certainly around 1 million Iranians. All Saddam's doing.
Give it up.
I can see you arguing civilian deaths - and I supplied a reference from the left wing so take your argument to them - but the military is . . . . well, guys with guns. Not that you'd win that one either.
Cowperson [/b][/quote]
To hold Saddam directly responsible for all of the casualties in the Iraq/Iran war is pretty ludicrous. It was just an escallation of years of fighting, and a good chunk of the Iraqi population probably believed in what they were fighting for. Many of those deaths can also be blamed on Israel, France, Russia and the United States. Weren't Iraq the good guys back then anyway?
The Iraqi soldiers would be alive today had US not invaded. They left many wives, children and friends at home to remember that the US was responsible for their deaths.