Montecresto
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Re: Iraqi forces losing 'will to fight' against ISIS
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And there you have it, you proved my earliest point by going with the lowest estimate of civilian casualties, due to the U.S. War in Iraq, just as Upsideguy proved you sought out and quoted the highest estimates when looking for civilian casualties by Hussein. :lamo
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Hah! You are trying to "settle" a dispute that only you are involved in.
But I will play, I was quoting statistics of civilians killed by Saddam and his regime as reported by reliable sources.
In your report the IBC did a study of the civilian deaths caused by both sides during the conflict and found that 7,419 civilians were killed during the major combat phase of the mission ending April 30, 2003. In total IBC tallies 120,816 total verified civilian deaths during the time the US forces were in Iraq. This is an under-count, but it is the only study provided by your source. How about I more than double it for sake of argument to 250,000 civilians killed in Iraq from 2003 to 2012 AND ignore the IBC audit of their 2005 figures that attributed only 37% of deaths to the US coalition operations. So I am taking the studies high estimate and multiplying that by 6 to get the US caused casualties, for the sake of argument. What point would you like to make with that figure?
And there you have it, you proved my earliest point by going with the lowest estimate of civilian casualties, due to the U.S. War in Iraq, just as Upsideguy proved you sought out and quoted the highest estimates when looking for civilian casualties by Hussein. :lamo