• Dkarma@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    "The actual amount of Afghanis and Iraqis killed by coalition troops and mercenaries is pretty low. "

    Over a million people is not pretty low. Go smoke some more crack.

    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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      1 year ago

      Those million deaths are mostly the casualties from the civil war stage of the Iraq occupation, and were not the direct result of coalition violence.

      Most, as mentioned, were casualties from sectarian violence and loss of service. Insurgent on insurgent action. Not even really Iraqis vs Iraqis tbh, given the large number of foreign volunteer fighters.

      America’s fault for both destabilizing the region and not enforcing order in the mess they created, but not the result of coalition troops gunning people down in the streets.