Does anybody know the number of insurgents our troops have kill? I tried to do a search, but all I keep getting is "US casualties". I want to know how many of those bastards we have killed.
Total Iraqi killed is estimated to be around 36,000. Sorry, no link, I heard this on CSPAN. If they would let us drop a few more MOAB's we might could reach 50,000 by Christmas. :hihi: For those who have not been paying attention, MOAB is Mother Of All Bombs.
This is not a flame, but an honest to God question... Is that insurgents or all Irqis including civilians.
I've heard the same number, and I think it's total. Who the hell knows who's a civilian and an insurgent. If the locals would take more responsibility for the actions of their own people, there wouldn't be much of an insurgency.
The problem is, most of the insurgency isn't Iraqi, but foreign nationals. I want to know if that figure includes civilians killed by insurgents. That number has to be pretty high. I know friends of mine hate the fact that insurgents will take pot shots at them, but the Marines cannot return fire because there are children around (and people like John Kerry say the troops over there are terrorizing children in their homes). Good tactic, I suppose, but awfully coward-like. I guess you can't expect much from such low-life human beings.
Undoubtedly. Nevertheless, the chances of the Iraqis finding out what the other Arabs are up to is infinitely greater than our honkies getting the inside scoop. Bottom line is we are trying to bring them freedom, and they've got to show the cojones necessary to help get it and THEN to maintain it.
Salty one thing I never understood is how supporters of the Iraqi war can say things like the above out one side of their mouths and say Iraqis deserve freedom and democracy out the other.
According to this 700 insurgents have been killed in Iraq since September. While over 170 US soldiers have been killed in that same time frame. http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/BAK348767.htm That is the best I could find but i'm working off of a week of no sleep due to finals. Tomorrow I will try to find something that better answers your question as to an overall insurgent death count.
Most of of the websites I checked say between 27,000 and 31,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed, mostly by insurgency bombings but also including those killed during American bombings and during the ground war. But they all mention that Iraqi military casualties during the war and Iraqi insurgent casualties during the occupation are NOT included, nor are foreign terrorists. I can't find numbers for those categories anywhere. The US military would be the only source for such data but they are not very forthcoming. The US military has been very sensitive about body count information since the Vietnam War. Swartzkopf refused to give them at all during the Kuwait War. Daily body counts during Vietnam always showed enemy body counts as four to six times the US casualties. It gave the impression that progress was being made, when it was not. Body counts were a poor way to assess military or political success and the Pentagon stopped publishing them.
