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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-21-10 12:36 AM
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Americans puffed up in self righteous indignation
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Edited on Sat Aug-21-10 12:48 AM by G_j
How much remorse have Americans shown for all those thousands of human beings killed, maimed and traumatized as they lashed out against Muslim countries 'because of 9/11'? They never apologized or offered the slightest sign of contrition, but now they are puffed up in self righteous indignation about a cultural center.
How sick is that?

(and of course, I don't mean ALL Americans, just FAR TOO MANY!)



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

Source Iraqi casualties March 2003 to...

Iraq Family Health Survey 151,000 violent deaths.
June 2006

Lancet survey 601,027 violent deaths out of 654,965 excess deaths. June 2006

Opinion Research Business survey 1,033,000 violent deaths as a result of the conflict. August 2007

Associated Press 110,600 violent deaths
April 2009

Iraq Body Count 95,888 – 104,595 violent civilian deaths as a result of the conflict.
April 2010



http://www.unknownnews.net/casualties.html

At least 919,967 people have
been killed in Afghanistan and Iraq
since the U.S. and coalition attacks, based on lowest credible estimates.

Sources and methodology are explained in the sidebar. Some questions about lower or higher casualty counts cited elsewhere are addressed in these footnotes. This page is updated about once monthly. Most recent update: Aug. 10, 2010.


# Casualties in Afghanistan:
Afghan troops killed <1> 8,587
Afghan troops seriously injured <2> 25,761
Afghan civilians killed <3> 8,813
Afghan civilians seriously injured <4> 15,863
U.S. troops killed <5> 1,140
U.S. troops seriously injured <6> 3,420
Other coalition troops killed <7> 772
Other coalition troops seriously injured <8> 2,316
Contractors killed <9> 298
Contractors seriously injured <10> 2,428
Journalists killed <11> 19
Journalists seriously injured <12> unknown

Total killed in Afghanistan 19,629
Total injured in Afghanistan 48,644



on edit:
to the unreccers, yea, it's you I'm talking about..
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