650,000 iraqis die in 3 years due war. Does anyone know at what pointiraq could be considered a genocide?

Question

in rwanda it was 800,000, the holocaust 5.1m jews died approx. wilkins defines genocide as any acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
I personally don't believe in this blame game about who is responsible..ie Us forces or terrorists. I recognise there is a war out there, however, point is innocent people are dying, thats the reality.

The new figures of 655,000 have just been released by this survey by a US university. See link http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6040054.stm

Answer 1

it can only be considered "genocide" when ONE group is exterminating ANOTHER weaker group. (does anyone remember the Bosnian War?) or as your example, Nazi's killing off the Jews.

the united states is not "genocidal"... though it can be if we only targeted exclusively Muslims and Muslim countries. terrorism is just a unofficial term to use as an espionage and sabotage agent.

so with your examples, you forgot to list the Israeli and hellaboza conflict in the Lebanon region.

the point of war is to win, by any means necessary. (you also forgot to mention the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs)... but why not the genocidal rampages of African warlords, or the conflicts in southeast Asia.

in any conflict, the sad fact of reality is, people die. its unfortunate, and bad. but as long as human beings exist, there will be war, and there will be killing, no matter who picks up the weapon.

Answer 2

The terrorist killed most of that 655,000... no it is not genocide, it is a religious war. Innocent people die every day all over the planet. They are dieing now in Darfur. It's what you do about the slaughter that matters. We are doing the right thing in Iraq.

Answer 3

I doubt those numbers are correct. But even 1 is too many. War is ugly it sucks. But do we just lay down and let these terrorists take over? Remember there wouldn't be any war if their weren't any terrorists. There's a lot of men and women who believe fighting for freedom is worth putting their lives on the line. Are they wrong? I hate war but I love freedom more. Life without freedom...would it be worth living? I just can't put our troops in the same category as terrorists. We are defending they are trying to annihilate. To me that's a big difference

Answer 4

US isn't doing the killing as you are attempting to imply!

If the Iraqis truly want the coalition out, take about a year and a half of peace. By the end of the 1st year they'd feel the new government is stable enough to leave. Then it would take about 6 months to move the US troops out of theater. If the Iraqis still wanted their civil war, The US troops could return in time to stop them. Are those that want a civil war scared that the locals might discover their is value in peaceful co-existence & be willing to fight for peace.

Answer 5

It's an insurgency. The Sunnis want their power back so they can give to themselves and take away from the Shiites and Kurds again. Of course, all this starts a powder keg of a lot of possibilities and deaths.

Answer 6

Actually only about 50,000 Iraqi's have been killed so far. And that includes the ones that killed themselves, the ones that Saddam Hussein killed, and the groups of Iraqi's that have killed eachother.

Answer 7

Who the heck is "wilkins" and who gaves a fiddler's fart what he says?

Point is that in every war innocent people die, thats why they call it WAR.

Answer 8

thatb point was reached with the first bombs
.so long past genocide
multiple genocide would now be a better term

Answer 9

70% of iraqis killed were killed by terrorist. they are idiots.