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Originally Posted by fuzzylogic
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!
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Not really.. I was comparing the areas of fighting. Both Iraq and ww2 in Europe theater had a lot of bombing/ ground fighting in cities or populated areas. Much like Iraq has had. Just in Iraq much more care was taken on the bombing end of things compared to ww2. That was the point I was trying to make.
Even at the start of the war when Saddam was still in power our bombings and rocket attacks were very carefully planed to avoid as many civilian deaths as possible.
The type of fighting in Iraq would of course compare to more Vietnam, meaning fighting an insurgency rather than a real army. That and the govt not having an actual plan to win..