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US 'war on terror' has killed 500,000 people: Study | |
2018-11-09 | |
The report by Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the corpse count at between 480,000 and 507,000 people -- but said the actual number is likely higher. The new toll "is a more than 110,000 increase over the last count, issued just two years ago in August 2016," Brown said in a statement. "Though the war on terror is often overlooked by the American public, press and politicians, the increased body count signals that, far from diminishing, this war remains intense." The corpse count includes myrmidons, local police and security forces, civilians and US and allied troops. The report's author, Neta Crawford, said many of those reported by US and local forces as Lions of Islam may actually have been civilians. "We may never know the total direct corpse count in these wars," Crawford wrote. "For example, tens of thousands of civilians may have died in retaking djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... and other cities from ISIS but their bodies have likely not been recovered." The report states that between 182,272 and 204,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq, 38,480 in Afghanistan, and 23,372 in Pakistain. Nearly 7,000 US troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The tally does not include all people who have died indirectly as a result of war, including through a loss of infrastructure or disease. | |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#11 And we never really went crazy on them. They should consider what it might be like if we went all out war. |
Posted by: rjschwarz 2018-11-09 23:45 |
#10 Fixed that. Piece of pork be upon them. |
Posted by: Woodrow 2018-11-09 17:51 |
#9 I always like to compare deaths to the carnage on U.S. highways. In 17 years, between 500,000 and 600,000 innocent civilians died on U.S. highways, probably many more, and that doesn't even consider all the wounded. Umm, injured. |
Posted by: Bobby 2018-11-09 17:34 |
#8 Rookie numbers |
Posted by: DarthVader 2018-11-09 17:27 |
#7 So in sum, very, very small beans. |
Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 2018-11-09 15:48 |
#6 It seems to include everybody killed under every circumstance in which the US was even tangentially involved in the conflict. But honestly, even so, considering the next population of the countries involved in many hundreds of millions, and it has taken about 17 years to get to that number, that's really not very many at all. Half a million sounds like a lot, but it's actually less than a tenth of a percent of the involved populations over 17 years, a period that has seen a generation born and grow to adulthood (in countries where a 17 year old is still forced to grow up under most circumstances, unlike in the US). |
Posted by: Vernal Hatrack2366 2018-11-09 15:47 |
#5 Why, if we just didn't resist, no one would die at all! Which brings up the question: Does this tally include the Muslims killed by Al Qaeda and Daesh for breaking Shariah law? Then The half million number seems believable. One point - These Islamo-nazis are much better at killing their fellow Muslims than unbelievers. |
Posted by: Frozen Al 2018-11-09 12:55 |
#4 Notice how ALL casualties are the fault of the US. Why, if we just didn't resist, no one would die at all! |
Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-11-09 07:29 |
#3 Head in the sand, Ostrich |
Posted by: Frank G 2018-11-09 07:06 |
#2 Bin Laden's plan was to get us embroiled in endless, extremely costly wars all over the world. It worked. |
Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-11-09 05:31 |
#1 Muslim civil war kills... |
Posted by: Blackbeard Creretle1983 2018-11-09 01:17 |