And also according to this study, the main reason ISN'T because of the terror practises of the insurgents.
The rise in the death rate was mainly due to violence and much of it was caused by U.S. air strikes on towns and cities.
"Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths, or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," said Les Roberts of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in a report published online by The Lancet medical journal.
"The use of air power in areas with lots of civilians appears to be killing a lot of women and children," Roberts told Reuters.
Study: 100,000 excess Iraqi deaths.
As big a tragedy as September 11th 2001 was, the loss of life pales to this in a numeric sense.
And this was Iraq, NOT Afghanistan. This nation wasn't even responsible. There were NO WMD's. There was NO link to Al Qaeda.
Until the U.S. changes it's foreign policy expect the rest of the world to be outraged or disgusted, or just plain upset about it's leader and it's people who voted him in. It's kind of disappointing to keep hearing U.S. citizens or sympathizers talking about growing U.S. resentment when it backs a leader responsible for stuff like this.
And expect the U.S. to be the target of terrorism for a lot longer too. You can't solve violence with violence, (especially when you bring it back an estimated 50 times over) and the U.S. certainly isn't making any friends by lying to the international community about the reasons of invasion.
Only a dramatic policy shift is going to keep the U.S. safe. (Or I suppose the complete and utter obliteration of it's 'enemies' on the scale of a third world war) And only a mandate from the people (be it by a vote or a growing movement) is going to curb anti-U.S. sentiment around the world.
I'm sorry, that's only fair.
Edit: Spelling as usual