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The result of the stepped up air war, according to the London-based organization Iraq Body Count, is an increase in civilian casualties. A Lancet study of "excess deaths" caused by the Iraq war found that air attacks were responsible for 13% of the deaths -- 76,000 as of June 2006 -- and that 50% of the deaths of children under 15 were caused by air strikes.
The number of civilian deaths in Afghanistan from air strikes has created a rift between the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the UN
Originally posted by budski
The article is about blanket bombing - that is what the US is doing, in order to avoid losing more troops in an illegal invasion of a sovereign country that they invaded for money.
Try looking past what Bush tells you
Originally posted by budski
Bombing urban area's is tantamount to murder.
Originally posted by deltaboy
Originally posted by budski
Bombing urban area's is tantamount to murder.
So was firebombing Tokyo during WW2 but nobody was complaining.
Originally posted by budski
This was an unjustified invasion of a country that had done nothing to the US or UK - and now we're murdering civilians, all in the name of oil.
Originally posted by budski
A completely different scenario - what did the iraqi's ever do to us? and if you say about al'qaeda I'll know your just ignorant.
This was an unjustified invasion of a country that had done nothing to the US or UK - and now we're murdering civilians, all in the name of oil.
Originally posted by budski
Who said oil for the nation?
This is about bush's blind ambition and greed - nothing else - you think he cares anything for the american people? He cares only about his own enrichment.