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Old 05-31-10, 02:24 PM   #4
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As a reality check Rummel cites the US for ~650,000 democides in WW2, most all due to the bombing campaign (not all deaths to bombing are counted, BTW, just those he considers "excessive." The total number killed was considerably higher, but if you are in a combat zone as a civilian...

As for the Iraq body count website, it's hardly an apologist site for the US military, it's very purpose is to paint the military in a bad light for killing too many—so that's likely a high estimate (though it seems a plausible high, unlike that idiotic lancet "study" that was published (and later discredited).
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