Your Gulf War number is basically made up. The Vietnam one is close to the total caused by all sides (N-S Vietnam, US), however. Plus the sanctions were UN, and could have been vetoed by any country on the security council.[/quote]My Iraq war numbers were quoted from the ANU, however the peer reviewed lancet surveys found a higher number of 600,000 deaths from 2003-2006. The official American figures say at least 100,000.
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Does the vietnam war's 70% civilian casualty rate count, with it's many documented acts of genocide (2 million civilians)? Or the 2nd gulf war's 90% civilian casualty rate (400,000 civilians)?
Or what of the 500,000 Iraqi children who died as a direct result of American sanctions during the 90's (to no effect)? Isn't that basically laying siege to and killing via attrition hundreds of thousands based on nothing but their nationality...?
Would you celebrate the death of the men who ordered these acts?
The Vietnam numbers came from the modern Vietnamese government. Other estimates go up to 3-4 million dead total (including troops).
Yes the US-enforced sanctions through the 90's were approved by the UN, after being tabled by the US - so obviously you can blame other security council representatives who agreed.
The question still stands -- those men killed half a million children for no reason other than they happened to be in the wrong country -- would you celebrate their assassination?
[edit]And here's a source for a US ambassador (later secretary of state) defending the 90's genocide in Iraq:[media]
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