Reply #52: The Americans killed low tens of thousands directly. [View All]

[Donald Ian Rankin]

The hundreds of thousands of deaths Bush has been accused of are the result of the damage caused by the subsequent sectarian violence, both directly and as indirectly through destroying and preventing the repair of infrastructure.

Like most wars, the number of people killed *in* it has been negligable compared with the number of people who have died *as a result* of it. "Shock and awe" was really not the problem - the actual fighting of the Iraqi army and the removal of Saddam was the one part of the operation that went reasonably well.