Possibly linux@lemmy.zip to Memes@sopuli.xyzEnglish · 3 days agoCan we go back to 2019?lemmy.zipexternal-linkmessage-square30linkfedilinkarrow-up1156arrow-down116
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minus-squarebleistift2@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days agoI wasn’t really around when the US did their post-9/11 thing… but shouldn’t there be more deaths in that period?
minus-squarelefaucet@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoI noticed the same. Like I know the second US/Iraq war was a long one, so like the deaths would be diffused over several years, but It doesn’t seem to add up? Here’s another graph I found of just Iraqui civilian deaths: 2006 or 7 had about 30,000 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-war-bush-twentieth-anniversary-b2302031.html
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 days agoThe graph clearly isn’t including deaths of muslims. Come to think of it, it doesn’t even label who it counts under “battle deaths”…
I wasn’t really around when the US did their post-9/11 thing… but shouldn’t there be more deaths in that period?
I noticed the same. Like I know the second US/Iraq war was a long one, so like the deaths would be diffused over several years, but It doesn’t seem to add up?
Here’s another graph I found of just Iraqui civilian deaths: 2006 or 7 had about 30,000
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iraq-war-bush-twentieth-anniversary-b2302031.html
The graph clearly isn’t including deaths of muslims.
Come to think of it, it doesn’t even label who it counts under “battle deaths”…