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More than 34,000 civilians were killed in Iraq in 2006, according to United Nations figures released today which are nearly three times higher than the number reported dead by the Iraqi Government.
2007-01-16 02:31:56 · 25 answers · asked by Infinite and Eternal Reality 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
What does it matter really? What if it was only 20,000? Is that too many? How about 25,000? At what number do we start to think "the Iraqis aren't benefiting from this war? How many civialian deaths is acceptable?
2007-01-16 02:55:12 · answer #1 · answered by Chris D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
False
The Real 2006
'Iraq Body Count'
Iraqi civilians killed last year by ISLAMIC Terrorists
16,791
Iraqi civilians killed collaterally in incidents involving Americans
(and Islamic Terrorists)
214*
Iraqis aren't
dying from war.
They are being murdered by
Islamic terrorists
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/Pages/IraqBodyCount2006.htm
But liberals will say that number is way low. The like 6 million dying at the hands of Bush. Than give the terrorist the big pass.
2007-01-16 03:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on what you consider a civilian... if by civilian you mean a individual not in the military with a bomb strapped to their chest or trying to run through military checkpoints then it may be true..
If you add the number killed by suicide bombers and Iraqi death squads and also the number of American civilians beheaded then probably..
2007-01-16 15:23:51 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those numbers are really suspicious. Considering that the UN is doing nothing in Iraq they have no way to independently collect data. Thus they would have to provide a strong argument as to why they numbers are anything other than something they simply made up.
2007-01-16 02:56:07 · answer #4 · answered by MikeGolf 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
More innocents are killed by indiscriminate car bombs and IEDs set by insurgents than are killed by American soldiers. Mistakes happen, but the difference is the vast majority of deaths at the hands of Americans are accidental or the direct result of insurgents using them as human shields while the insurgents target civilians to induce terror (thus the label terrorist).
2016-05-24 23:37:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could be true, but about 860,000 civilians were born in 2006 with about 143,000 total deaths.
To make things more interesting, the death rate in Iraq was 5.3 per 1,000. In the U.S. it was 8.26 per 1,000. Iraq was safer than the U.S. in 2006. France is even more dangerous at 9.6 per 1,000. Germany was nearly twice as dangerous as Iraq at 10.62 per 1,000!
2007-01-16 10:02:18 · answer #6 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'll take the Iraqi government's numbers over the UN's any day.
The UN hasn't earned my trust.
2007-01-16 02:48:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Isn't it ironic that the UN always release these reports.
They say that they want to preserve peace in the wrold, but they are hardly doing anything in Iraq.
Stop reporting and do something about this! Send peackeeping troops.
2007-01-16 02:36:34 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
That number is grossly under reported!
150,000 is the more accurate number.
150,000 x 4 years = 600,000 Iraqi dead!
2007-01-16 03:56:25 · answer #9 · answered by jswnwv 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Those Peace Loving Iranians make good IED's...........
Chris..... How many German civlian lives were too much In WW2? Moot point War is Killing and Dying and stuff like I see everyday here....................
2007-01-16 03:43:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋