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Re: Iraqi forces losing 'will to fight' against ISIS
As I suspected you were stuck in a faulty assumption. You are dumping insurgent and Iraqi army deaths in with the total. That is not what is or was being discussed. If that were my point then I would have included deaths from the Iran/Iraq war and the Gulf War into my totals and the deaths caused by Saddam would be closer to 2.5 million.
Let me post that whole paragraph for you, Montecresto, since you mysteriously cut out the important part:
"Scientific surveys of Iraqi deaths resulting from the first four years of the Iraq War found that between 151,000 to over one million Iraqis died as a result of conflict during this time. A later study, published in 2011, found that approximately 500,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the conflict since the invasion. Counts of deaths reported in newspapers collated by projects like the Iraq Body Count project found 174,000 Iraqis reported killed between 2003 and 2013, with between 112,000-123,000 of those killed being civilian noncombatants."
Huh, editing out the part that proves you wrong? Typical.
The IBC is but one source of estimate on the civilians killed in Iraq. There are many sources, and I'll post the range for you again here.
Scientific surveys of Iraqi deaths resulting from the first four years of the Iraq War found that between 151,000 to over one million. Iraqis died as a result of the conflict.
Casualties of the Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
And as Upsideguy correctly pointed out to you, killing civilians in an attempt to remove Saddam Hussein for killing civilians is stupid!
As I suspected you were stuck in a faulty assumption. You are dumping insurgent and Iraqi army deaths in with the total. That is not what is or was being discussed. If that were my point then I would have included deaths from the Iran/Iraq war and the Gulf War into my totals and the deaths caused by Saddam would be closer to 2.5 million.
Let me post that whole paragraph for you, Montecresto, since you mysteriously cut out the important part:
"Scientific surveys of Iraqi deaths resulting from the first four years of the Iraq War found that between 151,000 to over one million Iraqis died as a result of conflict during this time. A later study, published in 2011, found that approximately 500,000 Iraqis had died as a result of the conflict since the invasion. Counts of deaths reported in newspapers collated by projects like the Iraq Body Count project found 174,000 Iraqis reported killed between 2003 and 2013, with between 112,000-123,000 of those killed being civilian noncombatants."
Huh, editing out the part that proves you wrong? Typical.
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