How would you respond? I think he got the facts on Iraq wrong.?

Question

Subject: Increase Violence in Iraq

Message: Joking?
No I'm not joking.
"We didn't initiate the violence in Iraq"?
Are you joking?
You sure as hell did.
Let me give you a little reality check.
According to UN and international compiled figures 650,000 (and rising daily) Iraqis have died since the American invasion.
As opposed to USA Pentagon figures which a:
1. Never include a counting of civilians casualties since Bush ordered that civilian casualties not be counted, and never were.
2. Never include wounded or displaced numbers..
3. & BTW Never include American wounded, the "official" number of American wounded is zero.
So hundreds of thousands already have died whether you believe it or not. Saddam didn't remotely approach such numbers except during his war with the Islamic Jihad Shia/Iranian coalition. The same majority Shia Bush & Co elevated to power by removing Saddam.
This is a total mismanaged ill-conceived bloody mess and it is indeed your fault.

There was more to the email, the last line was "It's too bad Americans don't suffer the same fate as Iraqi civilians as a result of your illegal murderous invasion.. Then you'd get out sure as hell."

What I want to know is how would you respond to this email?

I was suprised and upset as my husband is on his 3rd tour in Iraq and I would rather have him here then there anyhow.

Answer 1

The wounded numbers are on the DOD website so look there. So are the civilian casualties. We did not initiate the violence in Iraq, Saddam himself did. You were talking to either an insurgent or an ignorant person who is too lazy to do research to get facts. They need to do their homework, but don't feel bad if they don't. They more than likely will just stay in transmit mode and rant.

Answer 2

Most of the world considers the attack on Iraq to be a disaster from the start. Anybody with any knowledge of the history of Iraq would know that the invasion would be the easy bit, it's what happens after that is difficult especially if you have destroyed their water supplies, electricity supplies, telecommunications, civil service and allowed all the Ministries in Baghdad to be looted except for the Ministry of Oil and the Ministry of the Interior.
In other words the Bush Administration and their accomplices made Iraq ungovernable, they broke the civil society and now they can't put it back together again

Answer 3

This is not a 'reality check' - it is nothing more than a partisan political rant - based on fantasy.

For example: I challenge you to either support your claim that President Bush ordered that civilian casualties not be counted - or we will all know that you are nothing but BS and hot air.

Answer 4

who've you been listening to? Iraq became important to the war on terror. in case you checked the "butchering" became no longer on harmless Iraqis yet extremists and its closer to the 1000's and 1000's or 10,000s quite than the a hundred,000s. On perfect of that we get maximum of our oil from Saudi Arabia and such and from what i understand we did no longer take any from Iraq. yet to respond to your question then certainly no longer something. we aren't there for vengeance yet quite to sell democracy and combat terror EDIT: I only regarded at your different questions and observed that the only people who're ideal answerers seem those with your attitude... only throwin it available....

Answer 5

I know how bad it is I was there!!!