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This is literally false, and quite honestly is complete hogwash.
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LOL. If it's "complete hogwash" then why did you drop your estimate so much?
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the US has killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in the Middle East the past few decades,
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there are still tens of thousands of civilians deaths as a DIRECT result of US actions in Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries.
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Yes, the US has directly killed civilians and their standing in the world and their long-term security has probably been harmed because of it. And yes, some people would argue that the US committed war crimes in its invasion of Iraq; that's hardly a controversial contention. Why you seem to think that it's some kind of gotcha is baffling. Many of the same people criticizing Israel think the US committed illegal acts in the Middle East.
But surely you can see the difference between killing tens of thousands of civilians in countries with a combined ~100M population over a period of 25 years on the one hand, versus killing tens of thousands of civilians in a place with 2M people over the period of a few months, right?