Reply #6: No, the USSR or ww2 europe gets that title

[Pavulon]

Compared to the killings of the 20th century the action in Iraq does not register. The actions of post war communist china starved millions.

The nuclear weapons lark is a joke. You should avoid it as it carries much drama but little weight.

We killed more people in Tokyo with fire bombs than in the Hiroshima attack. The BRITISH killed more in dresden with the same technology.

Oddly enough if you look at a running average of death in global war there is a massive drop..After 1945.

I am familiar with the tools we have to use on the battlefield. In terms of generating mass casualties strategic bombing of cities and use of artillery in offensive and counter battery fire are FAR and away the most deadly conventional weapons systems.

These were not used. Please do not try and equate anything in Iraq with the scale of destruction payed out in previous wars.

If the object was to inflict mass casualty we have the ability, but have not, and would never, use it in this or any other action.

Obviously the Iraq war is bad policy, but bad policy does not mean imperial desire or action.