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Originally Posted by crockett
Yes it's a disaster, but I still give our troops credit for the lack of civilian deaths caused by our fire. Remember one thing in WW2 it was common for 20k-40k civilians to die in a single month much less a year. Hell some months were in the 100k range of dead civilians.
So I'd say being we are fighting in heavily populated battlefields, I'd say 35k is a low number especially when you consider most of that 35k probably around 70 or 80% were killed by the insurgents.
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poor comparison.
1st
ww2 was a war
the iraq war ended years ago. the 35k statistic is during a non-war year.
2nd
in ww2 arial bomb raids were performed in which vast amounts of civilian buildings were destroyed.
that technique is not used currently in iraq.
the iraqi war is way more similar to the vietnam war than to ww2, silly!