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Old 09-05-2006, 04:47 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by bobfishgerald
The body count of civilian casualities in Iraq appears to be approaching 50,000 according to the website Iraq Body Count which uses only deaths reported in news stories with no statistics or estimations involved. So the ratio of innocent killing seems to be tipped in our favor for now.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
If I'm not mistaken the vast majority of those civilian casualties were targeted by insurgents and not collateral damage of American actions.
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