I'm not quite sure what the 10,000 figure is you are referring to, but I hope you don't think that's all the Iraqis who have been killed in the last four years.
The Iraq Body Count project, as of yesterday, puts the count at around 60,000. A criticized, but not refuted, estimate done by the British medical journal "Lancet" put the number, as of October, 2006, at around 655,000, conservatively.
Regardless of which numbers you accept, thousands of Iraqis have died directly as a result of Coalition military action. Granted, in some cases civilians may not have been directly targeted, but when you drop thousand-pound bombs in crowded urban neighborhoods, you know that many civilians will die. The effect on the people is the same, regardless of whether you targeted specific people or not.
It is also true that many Iraqis have been killed by insurgents and terrorists, but the insurgents and terrorists would not have been operating had it not been for the invasion.
Let me make myself very clear here: I am a long-time student of military history, so I understand that the ones who suffer the most, particularly in modern warfare, tend to be the innocents. Civilians who die in a war being fought to defend oneself, or to stop aggressors, such as occurred in World War II, is one thing. But the war in Iraq was not necessary. It was a war of choice and is in fact a criminal war of aggression, according to the international guidelines resulting from the Nuremberg Tribunals. Therefore there is no justification for the deaths of, at minimum, tens of thousands of Iraqis resulting from this war.
2007-03-23 11:37:25
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answered by Jeffrey S 4
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The Iraqi insurgents.
They've killed the most innocent people. Did you see on the news the suicide bomber who released toxic gas on Iraqi children?
2007-03-23 17:17:48
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answered by Anonymous
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George Bush single handedly set the war in motion. However, if you ask him, the fault lies completely with the evil ones, which includes al Qaeda, the Democrats, etc.
2007-03-23 18:32:31
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answered by Fred 7
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Saddam Hussein killed well over 10K, but he's dead now.
2007-03-23 20:47:15
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answered by Anonymous
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I'll take car bombing insurgents for 500.
2007-03-23 18:24:30
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answered by Anonymous
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ahh...the Iraqi themselves?
2007-03-23 17:12:42
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answered by aRabidLunatic 1
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Not just Iraqi insurgents, also America.
AMERICA SUCKS MOTHERFUCKINGASS.
2007-03-23 17:20:07
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answered by Anonymous
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