Your logic then has the US as barbarians in Iraq
The most intense period for civilian deaths was at the war’s very beginning, when more than 6,700 were killed in just 3 weeks of ‘Shock and Awe’ (from 20th March to the seizure of Baghdad on 9th April: a rate of 320 per day for 21 days).
The most violent month after the invasion was July 2006, with 3,266 violent deaths. The most sustained period for high-level violence was during the fourth and fifth years from March 2006 to March 2008, when ‘sectarian’ killings peaked and some 52,000 died.
Annual civilian deaths since 2003 (counting from 20 March–19 March each year):
14,007 in year one12,001 in year two17,026 in year three31,418 in year four20,930 in year five7,829 in year six4,747 in year seven4,133 in year eight4,433 in year nine~4250 in year ten 1The majority of civilian deaths during the first year (at least 55%) were directly caused by US/Coalition forces, who were reported as directly causing around 7% of all deaths in the subsequent period until their formal withdrawal on 31st December 2011. |
