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The staggering human cost of Bush's war

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angellous_evangellous

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Take a look at this: iCasualties: Iraq Coalition Casualty Count - Iraqi Deaths

Since 2005, there have been more than 55,000 Iraqis killed as a direct result of the lies created by the Bush administration.

That's staggering. Of the 55k deaths, 47k were civilian. Most of the civilian deaths were not from US soldiers or bombs - they were caused by insurgents, killing their own neighbors.

Sadaam was no cupcake, but one has to wonder if there would have been more than 55k deaths in his country in seven years (and an intent to harm the USA with WMDs).
 
DeitySlayer

DeitySlayer

President of Chindia
True say. Under Hussein, people would be killed if they did certain things. This was terrible, but at least you could keep yourself safe by refraining from actions. Now, the danger is everywhere, and there is no measure they can take, no freedoms they can sacrifice to protect themselves from it. Congratulations, Bush. You took a country from sacrificing freedom for safety, to having neither freedom or safety.
 
K.Venugopal

K.Venugopal

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Bush, being President of USA, fulfilled his primary duty of protecting America from terrorism. Today Mr. Obama is making sure that BP does not get away on the oil-spill issue. Americans are lucky to have leaders who are committed to "America first". In India we appear to have a leadership who, for whatever reasons, have not been tough or strategic enough to ensure terrorism does not thrive on Indian soil. And also a leadership who failed to bring Union Carbide to book for the disaster they caused in a town called Bhopal. We Indians, I think, have a tendency to strive to be in everybody's good books and so, having the leaders we deserve, we have become a soft state. Bush may not have been good for the rest of the world but at least he was good for America. And if many Americans have a different view of Bush, that is only the expression of freedom which Americans have and which Bush protected. I often wish we had leaders in India who are more like American presidents.
 
DeitySlayer

DeitySlayer

President of Chindia
K.Venugopal said:
he was good for America.
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He was an ******* who brought America criticism and hatred on the world stage, alienating allies and strenghthening the resolve of enemies. He was handed a terrorism report a few months prior to 9/11, which outlined, amongst others, the possibility of terrorism on aircraft; he ignored this.

Oh, and it wasn't Bush, but America did fund the Taleban and arm them with rocket launchers and guns to fight the Soviets. That one kind of backfired.
 
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