It has been hotly debated how many lives of men, women and children were lost in the U.S. War which lasted nearly nine years, ending 12/31/11. The latest estimate is a half million lives. http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/15/iraq-war-civiliandeathtoll500knewstudyestimates.html
Of course this does not include all the wounded men, women and children, nor the orphaned children, nor the more than two million Iraqis that fled their country. It does not measure the devastation done to their families.
Nor does it address the growing number of Iraqi men, women and children being killed now, with the death rate approaching the peak period of the U.S. War in 2007-2008.
Iraq is in a horrific state today and the message to each of us is simple. As we offer the Iraqi people our prayers, we must learn the lesson of war which is: war devastates humanity and should not be fought. There was certainly no reason to have fought the Iraq War and now it has no end in sight.
Dick
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