Afghan war dead?

[Peter K.]

>turban), Al Qaeda, tribesman and civilians? You
>can't say, and the US government doesn't care. If
>the most conservative estimates say 3-5 thousand
>'civilians' you can be sure a lot more people
>died in the bombing than that. Which means about
>the only thing we know for sure is that far more
>people died in the campaign against Afghanistan
>than on 9/11. Vengeance is mine sayeth the
>Empire, again and again and again. But the deaths
>are indeed untold.
>
>CJannuzi

The difference is that Al Qaeda set out to kill thousands of civilians
while the allies or "Empire" didn't. Seems rather elementary.

I wonder how many civilian deaths you think were worth stopping
Hitler. Or defeating the Confederacy during the Civil War.

Peter