thats a polling buisness... hardly a reliable source of information
Linky.1) who are civilians, I doubt all of those numbers are non-militants, as you know it is the civs who are also the militants
Who cares if they're civilians, militants, terrorists, freedom fighters, soldiers, etc?
They are humans. Right now they are dead humans.
2) who have we killed? who have they killed?
Who cares who has killed whom? They're dead now. And the largest single reason why they're dead now is because a government filled with incompetent megalomaniac people thought it would be a good thing to start a war and the majority of the inhabitants reelected those same people, or in other works, most of them supported this appalling thing we humans call war.
dont twist my words, I dont like the death of people more than the next guy, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna accept it coming here.
Are you really arguing, that Iraq under Saddam Hussein was a threat to the USA? (I hope you aren't arguing that way.)
As a side note. I don't twist your words. I'm translating them as good as possible to my native language. And in the translation they sound like you've called the whole mess that is Iraq right now, a "cleaning up". Am I right in this translation? If not I would like to now what you've meant. I could easily have misunderstood you.
you havent even thought about what the numbers represent
Oh, I have a very vivid imagination.
Do you have a daughter or a son? When not, do you have siblings? If yes, imagine one of them killed. It doesn't really matter who s/he was killed. It's just that s/he is dead know.
Now think of the feeling you get now, when you're imaging this. Feel it five minutes long. Now do it again, and again. 10 times, hundred times, a million times. That would take almost two years to do.
That's what the US government did. (Not personally, but their actions led to that.) And honestly, if it was my government I would protest against it until I was arrested (wouldn't be the first time for me) or they would stop it.
But I don't see anything like this happening in the USA, does it?
Vandenburg - Im sure you are a good person just dont judge a group of people based on your beliefs otherwise how is that behavior any different than those extremist that began this war in the first place.
Oh it's pretty different. Judging people on ones belief is called prejudice. While it's harmful in it's one way, it can easily be overcome. War on the other hand, is a terminal act. It consists of killing people, not one, not dozens. It means killing ten thousands, through action or through inaction, but by a conscious decision of people who now what happens in wars.
Oh, and we're talking about Iraq right now. I don't remember any Iraqis being under those that made the terrorist attacks of the 11. September 2001. I don't see any war that the Iraqis have started against the USA.
Btw. I called the USA's government ruthless warmongers. Not the American people. I'm pretty sure lots of Americans were against the war. I just think the inaction of large segments of the USA's populace speaks very badly on this certain part of the populace.
Im not attacking you just something to thing about.
Oh, don't worry. You can't attack me, since words doesn't hurt.

I've got a pretty thick hide.