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While we're on the subject of "under-counting", there is no official count of the number of civilians killed during the US Gov's invasion of Iraq. No sense counting what you don't want to know and don't want to be accounted for? US voters / citizens certainly don't care.

Independent sources put it at 100,000+. I've randomly read 2x to 3x that but 100k+ is bad enough.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians/ir...

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Whatever the number, it was “worth it”.

https://youtu.be/RM0uvgHKZe8

Ugh, she was vile.

There is official count of number of civilians murdered by Soviets in 1932-1934 by hunger (Holodomor) - 7 millions as declared by Russian Duma on 02.04.2008.

However, these are adults only, because children deaths are not counted at that time. With school-age children, for which records are stored, number raises to 10.5 million. Number of under school age children died because of artificial hunger in 1932-1934 is still unknown.

I hope, this will help to calculate number of deaths in Iraq.

> I hope, this will help to calculate number of deaths in Iraq.

It won't and there is not reason to think it will. It was a completely different situation. So keep your hopes to yourself.

Yep, it's an example of whataboutism.

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