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Originally Posted by powerclown
You didn't answer the question.
Because the answer you're looking for doesn't exist. As much as you seemingly wish they did, the Marines didn't kill tens of thousands of civilians in clearing Fallujah. They didn't need to, because there weren't tens of thousands of insurgents fighting, as you stubbornly insist there were. If there were 30,000 insurgents fighting from the onset, the Marines would never send in only 10,000 troops.
I get the sense that whatever the Americans do in Iraq, you will continue to criticize them. Thats fine, and I'll do it too when I see the need for them to be criticized. I don't see the clearing of Fallujah as a bad thing. I see it as a necessary step in the process of steering Iraq towards something resembling an orderly, law abiding society. Just my opinion.
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Holy Fuck! Are you blind?
This is from the link
you posted. I quoted in the first line of my reponse to you because it was evident you hadn't even read the link you provided.
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According to the British Independent Newspaper "Since the Anglo-American aggression began in March 2003, more than 16,000 Iraqis have been killed by the invaders in Fallujah, some 10,000 of whom were civilians, a large proportion of them women and children. It is in this context the hatred felt by the majority of Fallujah citizens against US forces must be looked at and calling them resistance fighters is justified."
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10,000 civilians killed by the US in Fallujah,
from your own link.
I didn't feel the need to pull the Lancet study because you are obviously so stubborn as to deny the facts presented
in your own link.