how many innocent people have been killed in iraq?

Answer 1

Too many, but not anything even remotely near that ridiculous number from the Lancet study. Unfortunately, the death toll numbers don't differentiate between dead insurgents and terrorists and the innocent people who happened to be shopping when terrorists decided to blow up a marketplace.

Answer 2

Not nearly as many as Rosie O'Donnell, Janeane Garofalo, and Al Franken would have you believe. They claim over 600,000 innocent people have been killed in Iraq. Take a zero off the end and you're getting a lot closer. The more important question to ask is "How many innocent Iraqi people have been killed by U.S. troops?" The answer to that is less than 1,000. The vast majority of innocent Iraqis (and U.S. soldiers) killed in Iraq are killed by insurgents or factional fighting groups. But do you hear CNN or CBS reporting those facts? Heck no. It doesn't fit into their anti-war, anti-Bush agenda.

Answer 3

Better question how many innocent people die everyday and any country for one reason or another. The better question would be..... If the number of people that died in Iraq was comparable to the amount people dieing of starvation or the number of people in the underground sex slave trade, would you still be on a war kick? Yes, war sucks. people die. In fact alot of people die and sometimes they were innocent, that is a fact. It is the things you can worry about right in your own city that bother me. War is for corrupt bureaucrats and soldiers.

Answer 4

define "innocent". once you do that, define how to prove innocence.
maybe some of the iraqi dead were not islamist terrorists; undoubtedly, some were. maybe some of the iraqi dead were honest and honorable people, the "gentle farmers" that the islamists keep claiming to be. however, some(/many/most/whatever) either actively supported jihad, or passively allowed it to happen, in their homes, in their families.
invariably, as muslims, the iraqi dead ALL supported the idea that islam must be forced upon all the rest of the world, either by accepting it, or paying for the privilege of not being muslim (being a "dhimmi").
how many kurds are you talking about, when you ask "how many innocent people have been killed in iraq?" - and, please be sure to include all those who were slaughtered by saddam hussein's regime.
how many victims of kidnapping: journalists, photographers, aid workers, contract workers, etc, are you taking about when you ask "how many innocent people have been killed in iraq?".
how many ambushed soldiers, people who are doing their jobs, who don't have the legal authority to "pick and choose" where they are working, and what they are doing while there, people who were ambushed, sometimes BY the iraqi forces who were supposed to working alongside them, are you including in your question?
as far as iraqi's themselves, i suppose there might have been some "innocent people" who died. what a shame.
and it's also a shame that so many of those who were/are legitimate targets continue to hide out, in family homes, in places where women and children, and other ostensible non-combatants congregate. and as far as iraqis themselves, not even all the women and children can be considered "innocent", not when they use women and children as suicide bombers. they are all involved, actively, and they are all legitimate targets.

Answer 5

One person lost is unfortunate, but our troops are not over there murdering innocent people, as the media pretends they are. I hope that is not what you're trying to say.

Answer 6

0 innocent people as defined by sin.
tens of thousands as defined by the world.

Answer 7

But how many were at the hand of their fellow Iraqis? Quite a few me thinks.

Answer 8

what is your deffinition of innocent? why dont you take atrip to your local recruiter and go find out for yourself

Answer 9

One is one too many.

Answer 10

By us? none.. otherwise we wouldn't have shot them would we?