When Does WAR Become GENOCIDE?

Question

The invasion of Iraq has cost 655,000 Iraqis their lives. That is the conclusion of a study financed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for International Studies and conducted by physicians under the direction of Johns Hopkins University.

When asked about the report, President Bush stated, "I don't consider it a credible report." Bush, of course, is not reality-based, and he knows that any unfavorable news is "enemy propaganda."

Also, The New York Times (Oct. 11) reports that Department of Veterans Affairs documents show that about one in five U.S. soldiers who have served in Iraq or Afghanistan have suffered at least partial disability.

What percentage of these deaths were insurgents
or "terrorists"?

Is Iraq a Genocide?

Answer 1

Wars arent necessarily the active elmination of a race, whereas genocide is. So if a war is designed to wipe out an entire race of people, a la ethnic cleansing, then its genocide

Answer 2

I think that the administration likes labels only when it is useful to their agenda...so far "terrorist" has become synonymous with "Muslim", contrary to the administrations protestations. Bush doesn't consider global warming or accounts that we are losing ground in Iraq, credible either, so it is no wonder he would discount an independant third party study. I think that more people are becoming aware that our presence in Iraq was motivated by greed and nothing so altruistic as "justice". So far they haven't even come up with a credible link between 9/11 and our pre-emptive war on Iraq. Let's hope the nation's enlightenment continues.

Answer 3

If 655,000 dead Iraqis isn't genocide....I don't know what is!

The war in Iraq is a mess, the USA can't win the peace!

Answer 4

not a acurate statement,they didnt take into consideration natural death,such as cancer ,heart attack ,etc.. genocide was done by hitler .. the true count on war related deaths is around 100,000 i wish we got more because there still at it! you know if they got there sh#t together we could leave..put some energy into that and quit using unreliable data to prove a point that is nonexistant! if we were conducting genocide as you put it there wouldn't be muslims here now would there?

Answer 5

All wars aregenocide regardless of how many people die, because the whole idea of war is death and destruction. This is why people show their stupidity when they decide to go to war, rather than trying to resolve their differences through talking.

Answer 6

Genocide - "any of the following 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; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

Does the war on terror with muslims as the target group qualify? I'd have to say yes.