While there are about 150,000 U.S. military personnel in Iraq, there are more than 120,000 other men and women serving alongside the military, but drawing their paychecks through such Pentagon contractors as Halliburton, Blackwater, DynCorp, and Custer Battles.
These are hired hands, not soldiers, and mostly they lack the training, discipline, and equipment of the regular forces – yet they're thrown into the same deadly environment, getting shot, bombed, maimed, and killed. Yet, the Bush administration does not even count them. A spokesman coldly says: "There is no requirement for the U.S. government to track these numbers."
The Labor Department, which receivess workers compensation claims, has quietly recorded that at least 917 of these people have died in Bush's war. Another 12,000 have been wounded in battle or injured on the job. That's about one-third more causalities than the Bush administration has told us about – a hidden toll of this immoral war and occupation.
2007-06-20 07:00:34 · 11 answers · asked by Richard V 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Immoral War-President Bush and Defense Secratary Rumsfeld knew about the torture at Agu Ghraib and did nothing to stop it.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/062007K.shtml
Civilians were targeted in Fallujah and burned alive with White Phosphurus rounds.
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/BUN410A.html
The invasion was illegal according to the U.N. Charter and the reasons given, WMDs and ties to 9/11, were proven false.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3661134.stm
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051114/ritter
2007-06-20 08:19:59 · update #1
people fail to realize that the injured in combat and die later from their wounds, somtimes a year or two later are not considered KIA. also the wounded we have now, amputees neuro injuries and the blind are in excess of 25 to 30 thousand 10 times the number of killed. let us not forget about them our disabled vets
2007-06-20 07:12:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
we invaded Iraq on bad intel. Colin Powel quoted that Saddam was working on the bomb or something similiar. Israel took out Iraq's nuclear program in 1981. Why we invaded Iraq is maybe to finish daddy bush's war? All this has done has played into Iran's hands. Iraq in the 1980's was our ally against Iran. Iran is a dark and dangerous enemy which in the future we might go to war against for a number of reasons. When Bush Jr leaves office I hope he faces litigation for this war. It was not necessary. thousands of american lives and millions of Iraqi lives are gone because of it.
2016-05-20 22:55:40 · answer #2 · answered by morgan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is no an immoral war or occupation. I have had friends in both the military and private contractor who have been in Iraq, based on their information to me on what Iraq was like and is becoming we needed to go into there. Contractors are not hired hands they went of their own choice and in many cases are highly qualified for the jobs they do, many went in to work with Iraqi's on setting up the government, drafting laws, helping put the police forces together, setting up hospitals and schools. The workers that Bechtel, Halliburtin and others sent in were like the troops the best. We owe this to the Iraqi people who wanted to escape from the burdens that the Bathists had imposed on them.
2007-06-20 07:23:41 · answer #3 · answered by ALASPADA 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Civilian stats are not part of Pentagon stats for the reason you dismiss. Secondly, they people who go there are choosing to go for large, tax-exempt paychecks and huge bonuses. If they get killed or maimed there it was a risk they knew and accepted. The Soldiers have no choice other than the original choice to serve their country.
As for the moral status of the war, could you be more specific as to how you reached that decision?
2007-06-20 07:29:35 · answer #4 · answered by morgan j 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
ONE was too many----by the time this is all over---IF it ever is---the toll on American's lives could be 10 TIMES or more what it is now---(somewhere around 3,500)...unfortunately, KING George is making SURE this ends up as another VIET NAM.... I support our SOLDIERS and HOPE for their safe return, but I do NOT support a war that was started on a lie and continues on even more likes from our tyranical "KING" George....he certainly doesn't seem like a "PRO-LIFE " president like he PROFESSES to be. (allowing our men and women to be killed in a war we should NEVER have gotten into AND ignoring the FACT that stemcell research and use COULD save THOUSANDS of lives.).... it's like he sits on his little oil covered throne down there in Washington saying---let em all die.....
2007-06-20 07:11:06 · answer #5 · answered by LittleBarb 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
An immoral war? Please explain... And one thing You need to realize, these people willingly went to Iraq knowing the dangers.. Meanwhile, here in the US, since Sept.11,2001, 21,900 American have been killed by illegal Aliens... Don't here too much about that...
2007-06-20 07:13:16 · answer #6 · answered by bereal1 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In total? Approximately 5000 were killed, another 15000 lost their limbs, eyesight, health.
2007-06-20 07:07:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
How Many Americans Have Really Died in Iraq?
TOO MANY!!!!!!!
2007-06-20 07:19:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Approximately 3,500.
2007-06-20 07:03:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
less then have benn gunned down in most major cities in the us.
2007-06-20 07:20:51 · answer #10 · answered by bikertrash 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋