Pentagon: IEDs killed 21k Iraqis
The Pentagon released some figures on civilian deaths in Iraq recently, according to USAToday, which show that 21,000 Iraqis were killed and another 68,000 were wounded as a result of IEDs between 2005 and now. Defense Department officials admitted that it’s difficult to tell who is a civilian and who is a terrorist once the bomb explodes;
Despite the imprecision, Lapan said the military believes insurgents killed far more civilians than U.S. and allied forces have in Iraq. However, the military is unable to quantify the claim, he said.
“The enemy put civilians purposely at great risk by its tactics and actions,” Lapan said in an e-mail.
Estimates vary among organizations that have tried to count civilian dead, according to a review last year by the Congressional Research Service. The Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights reported that 85,694 Iraqi civilians died from insurgent attacks from 2004 through 2008.
So who is really “occupying” Iraq here. The Left loves to blame all civilian deaths on the US presence in the country, but it looks to me that the dark forces are the real enemy of Iraqis here.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Terror War
Of course this will just be dismissed as more Pentagon propaganda.