• @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago

    America tried bombing a million innocent civilians from the comfort of their lazy ass Texas seat too. Remind me whether they won that war. Surely they didn’t leave a giant power vacuum and created many more resistance fighters.

    • @Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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      21 year ago

      Majority of deaths in iraq were during the civil war and the insurgency that followed, the 1 million figure that gets banded about with little evidence is in no way “civillians killed by NATO”.

      • @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        America purposely targeted civilian infrastructure at the start of their attack to cripple and kill the population and ruin their economy. They did not target military goals.

        The 1 million figure is widely accepted.

        • @Apollo@sh.itjust.works
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          21 year ago

          I don’t disagree, but given that the majority of the deaths happened uears later I think its niave to suggest that the USA killed 1 million iraqis.