"More Than 10,000 Iraqis Die in Baghdad"

[GreenPartyVoter]

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - While America mourns the deaths of more than 1,000 of its sons and daughters in the Iraq campaign, far more Iraqis have died since the United States invaded in March 2003. No official, reliable figures exist, but private estimates range from 10,000 to 30,000 killed across the nation.

At Sheik Omar Clinic, a big book records 10,363 violent deaths in Baghdad and nearby towns alone since the war began last year - deaths caused by car bombs, clashes between Iraqis and coalition forces, mortar attacks, revenge killings and robberies.

The violent deaths recorded in the clinic's leather ledger come from only one of Iraq's 18 provinces and do not cover people who died in such flashpoint cities as Najaf, Karbala, Fallujah, Tikrit and Ramadi.

Iraqi dead include not only insurgents, police and soldiers but also civilians caught in crossfire, blown apart by explosives or shot by mistake - both by fellow Iraqis or by American soldiers and their multinational allies. And they include the victims of crime that has surged in the instability that followed the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040909/D84VV5SO0.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. kick

[eissa]

2. Who cares about dead Iraqis?

All 10,000 of them must have been terrorists, or at the least, terrorist sympathizers, thus they deserved to die. Besides, "war is hell" and there will always be "collateral damage" (as one repuke told me). To top it off, wouldn't you rather have a war on their soil instead of here? After all, they are just an insignificant third-world country (and a Muslim one at that).

Are you ready to :puke: yet?

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. "Saddam killed more of them anyway"

That's my fave freeper retort. :eyes:

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. "Mission Accomplished!" "Bring 'em on!" Words to die by.

What goes unnoticed in America is the fact that those 10-30000+ men, women, children are people. Taxi drivers, housewives, professors, doctors, terrorists, criminals, students, old men, old women, farmers, babies, fishermen, secretaries.

People, not numbers, with lives that should be thought valuable. But, they are nameless, faceless, "enemies", that have been reduced to statistics.

I just looked at photo of an old man carrying a young girl, maybe 7 or 8 years old, her feet have been blown off. Who is she? What was her life like? Did she have a pet she loved? Could she read childrens books? Surely, she laughed and cried as children do.

But war is glorious, noble, patriotic, and those who participate in the killing are "heroes", "defenders of freedom", worthy of medals and statues.

But, no statue for that little girl.

Here's the link. Take a look at what our "liberation" of Iraq looks like.

http://www.robert-fisk.com/iraqwarvictims_mar2003.htm

[BeFree]

5. Not in my name

Not for one second have I supported the invasion. But those that have, have the blood of these innocents on their hands.

Somehow, I do not feel safer. If this country harbors so many who would inflict casualties upon so many innocent people without a bit of compassion, then I don't feel so safe here. I may be next, eh?

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. kick