Let us hope Ukrainian civilian casualties never approach those numbers in Iraq.
No one knows with certainty how many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since the 2003 United States invasion. However, we know that between 184,382 and 207,156 civilians have died from direct war related violence caused by the U.S., its allies, th…
Let us hope Ukrainian civilian casualties never approach those numbers in Iraq.
No one knows with certainty how many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since the 2003 United States invasion. However, we know that between 184,382 and 207,156 civilians have died from direct war related violence caused by the U.S., its allies, the Iraqi military and police, and opposition forces from the time of the invasion through October 2019. The violent deaths of Iraqi civilians have occurred through aerial bombing, shelling, gunshots, suicide attacks, and fires started by bombing. Many civilians have also been injured.
Everyone focuses on the drone strikes killing civilians, but honestly, during the three tours I put in there, most common way I saw civvies buy it was through "escalation of force" scenarios. Basically, we treated anyone who got too close to our convoys or checkpoints without stopping as a suicide bomber and lit their vehicle up with MG fire. I seen *a lot* of Iraqi civvies go out this way. A lot of folks don't know about things like the Haditha Massacre either, which is unfortunate, because that was basically a squad of Marines executing 24 civilians with close-range sternum and headshots--some victims as young as 8. The only Marine successfully charged for that war crime was a squad leader who was reduced to the rank of private. That's what happens when you take a Fallujah '04 spearhead infantry unit and recycle them to a different city with only about 6 months stateside in between. ALL the veterans in 3/1 had hardcore PTSD. That came out during our tour in the Haditha Triad following Rep Ruben Gallego's (D-AZ) unit getting pretty fucked up out there the month prior.
Let us hope Ukrainian civilian casualties never approach those numbers in Iraq.
No one knows with certainty how many people have been killed and wounded in Iraq since the 2003 United States invasion. However, we know that between 184,382 and 207,156 civilians have died from direct war related violence caused by the U.S., its allies, the Iraqi military and police, and opposition forces from the time of the invasion through October 2019. The violent deaths of Iraqi civilians have occurred through aerial bombing, shelling, gunshots, suicide attacks, and fires started by bombing. Many civilians have also been injured.
And Syria--- and Yemen.
Everyone focuses on the drone strikes killing civilians, but honestly, during the three tours I put in there, most common way I saw civvies buy it was through "escalation of force" scenarios. Basically, we treated anyone who got too close to our convoys or checkpoints without stopping as a suicide bomber and lit their vehicle up with MG fire. I seen *a lot* of Iraqi civvies go out this way. A lot of folks don't know about things like the Haditha Massacre either, which is unfortunate, because that was basically a squad of Marines executing 24 civilians with close-range sternum and headshots--some victims as young as 8. The only Marine successfully charged for that war crime was a squad leader who was reduced to the rank of private. That's what happens when you take a Fallujah '04 spearhead infantry unit and recycle them to a different city with only about 6 months stateside in between. ALL the veterans in 3/1 had hardcore PTSD. That came out during our tour in the Haditha Triad following Rep Ruben Gallego's (D-AZ) unit getting pretty fucked up out there the month prior.