How many Iraqi civilians ( men, women and children) were killed in this war?
The offical US military’s answer was given by General Franks “We don’t do body counts”. But the figures I found according to iraqibodycount.net is 38,000 to 42,000. But i am sure they are anti-war groups that would site it at much more. However, these numbers are misleading, since it is difficult to figure out who are civilians and who are insurgents. I am currently serving in the northern Iraq with the US army and I can tell you that is very difficult to tell who is, when 14 year old kids are the trigger men for roadside bombs and we get tips of possible insurgents that just turn out to be innocent, just disliked by the person who turned them in. So the many people the iraqs claim are “civilians” may have been insurgents. Another thing to consider is that the vast majority of the civilian deaths are caused by the insurgents. The roadside bombs used to target coalition forces are often place in crowed areas, not to mention the use of secertarain violence against civilian groups. There
