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McLaughlin puts the Iraqi civilian toll at 21,200 on his October 1st show, and has stated that he believes his estimates to be on the low side. If you go with the crazy assumption that Iraq was a sovereign country that did not pose a threat, and that we invaded under the false pretenses of our neocon overlords, then I should think we ought to add in Iraqi "military" deaths as well, since these are still more people who have died as a result of a crime against the peace (Geneva Schmeneva). And then there is the present and future death toll from destroyed infrastructure -- water, sewage, medical, etc. -- and let's not forget the depleted uranium munitions we've been raining down on that place since over a decade ago. That's one of those gifts that keeps on giving.
Unless we know about this stuff, and feel really damn bad about it, we will never keep it from happening in the future.
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