Casualties
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After ten years of war, more than a hundred thousand
casualties
, mostly Iraqis, and an astronomical cost of almost $1 trillion, the US leaves behind an Iraq that is neither more secure nor especially democratic.
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The lowest number of combatant
casualties
occurred in 2003, with just 20,000 killed.
The news about civilian
casualties
is also less bad than it used to be.
Thus, even though every civilian killed, maimed, raped, or tortured is one too many, the fact that the number of civilian
casualties
is clearly lower today than it was a decade ago, is good news.
We have been so consumed with seemingly objective discussions of politics, tactics, weapons, dollars and
casualties.
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