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porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Say what you want about Bush, even that war criminal didn’t go as far.

Genuinely not defending Russia here, but Dubya’s pretext for invading Iraq and Afghanistan was if anything even flimsier than the “justification” for the Ukraine invasion.

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Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
The estimates I’ve seen are 300.000 killed in Iraq. There’s more Russians killed alone than that, let alone Ukrainian military and civilian casualties…

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- drath@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Just 15172 civilian killed in Ukraine, according to UN, though. About 40k injured. That’s the lower estimate, yes, but, in comparison, the USA has committed more than 100k confirmed civilians kills in just Iraq alone.
  
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- porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Ok, some in Yemen and Somalia too, but Wikipedia claims the cost of life of the gwot was 4.5 million, and I’ve seen credible estimates as high as 6.
  
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror
  
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Rothe@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

and that war killed way more people, civilians and not.

No it fucking didn’t.

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- porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  You can just look up the numbers. 400k civilians directly killed, on the low end, millions more dead from famine and displacement. Versus like 15-20k in Ukraine
  
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