RetiredGySgt
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You'll find I'm correct.Interesting. You might be right. Easy enough to check - they have total fatality figures on all of the wars mentioned, both combatant and civilian. Let's go find out, shall we?
Right now, I'm going to bed. Will look into it tomorrow.
The figures on civilian deaths vary greatly for Vietnam and Iraq. They are a little more accurate for WW's I and II. Here is what I came up with:
WW I - The total number of deaths includes about 10 million military personnel and about 7 million civilians
WW II - Civilians killed totaled from 40 to 52 million
Vietnam - 55,000 combatant deaths. Civilians roughly 1 million.
Iraq - Civilians roughly 1 million.
The fact that the number of civilian deaths seems to decrease with the more modern wars is not indicative of anything except the fact that the more modern wars were smaller wars. Comparing the percentage of civilian deaths to combatant deaths is the proper way to analyze the situation. It has nothing to do with an "agenda."
Your 1 million in Iraq is a blatant lie, it is more like 100,00 unless you believe the discredited Lancet report. Official figures ARE available not made up ones by guessing.