I do include in my collateral damage assessment, american bullets and bombs gone astray. On that front, this war is unprecedented in the lack of collateral damage. Nowhere in history has so much care been given to avoid civilian casualities (even at the expense of our own troops' safety). Nowhere in history has so much been spent on "smart" munitions, paid for by U.S. taxpayers, to minimize the damage caused to those who are not combatants.

So I automatically ignore the stupid comments from those who want to bean count casualties that include everything from those who have died of old age to stray dogs with TNT jammed up their ass by insurgents. I try to believe deep down that they do not mean ill will to our troops, but it's a fine line between that and spitting in faces and calling them baby-killers.

Or perhaps there are those in our country who prefer the preservation of lives, at any cost, including that of freedom. Tell me you would prefer to live in tyranny... Life was so much better with Saddam, Sure 1,000 people a year were thrown off of buildings, or electrocuted, or raped in front of their husbands, or machine-gunned and thrown into pits. But 1,000 is a much smaller number than 10,000.

</people who are not now nor ever to be taken seriously>

I found your blog today, and will not return. Is this representative of so-called "conservative" bloggers?

I guess logic really does mean nothing to the minions of the neocons.

We were also responsible for the people in the mass graves because we supported saddam against Iran and then didn't act to take him out in GWI. We were responsible, at least according to Mad Maddie Albright, for the death of 500,000 children who were never born because of the sanctions and UN Oil-for-Terorism Funds that Saddam violated and then looted the proceeds from.

This is the mindset of the terror and tyranny sympathizers. The 10,000 Iraqi civs who died, mostly killed either directly by the foreign terrorists and Baathists, or because they don't adhere to rules of war in protecting civilians, are always the responsibility of the US and the 25 million who were freed from Saddams police state don't matter. It's like in F/911...they were all flying kites before and now it's horror.

Are you suggesting that the 100,000 figure (I assume you mean from the Lancet study) wasn't already suspect?

The problem here is they're using hindsight to come up with easy answers... and the problem is easy answers don't exist in this situation.