Let's see now............ how many Jews, Poles and Gypsies were killed in concentration camps during the years the Allies were fighting in Europe in WWII? How much worse did it get the closer we came to victory? Was it our fault they died because we were trying to liberate them from an evil dictator?
The left can use numbers to warp reality as much as they want, but it does matter WHO was doing the killing.
Those innocent Iraqis being killed were killed by terrorists in their own country. Blaming those deaths on us is preposterous.
One can argue about the wisdom of invading Iraq and both sides have solid points, but calling Bush, or worse, our TROOPS killers is just vile.
War is hell, especially for civilians, who get caught in crossfires, become 'collateral damage', are killed by invading or indigenous troops, are killed for resources (food, etc.), are raped and killed by either side or other civilians, who are killed for being collaborators, or not being collaborators, who starve, die of illness that might not have killed them in peacetime. Even without a pogrom, times are tough for most.
In WWII, it is estimated that civilian deaths from all sources numbered over 70 million.
At least twice as many as the troops killed.
In Korea, where the Chinese would march the people of a village in front of advancing troops and use them as a screen, the number of civilians killed outnumbered combatants (all armies) by a factor of four to one.
In Iraq, by contrast, between more accurate ordnance delivery systems and ROE, the civilian to
combatant ratio was 1:2 (half as many civilians as combatants), although other estimates would place those numbers at over three civilians to one combatant.
