I’ve lost count of the number of times that I’ve pointed out that since wars are not actually fought on battlefields but more often than not in heavily populated areas, the victims are disproportionately innocent civilians and most especially women and children. A new study just published by Iraq Body Count puts the numbers to the sad truth of this assertion. From The Independent (UK):
Air strikes and artillery barrages have taken a heavy toll among the most vulnerable of the Iraqi people, with children and women forming a disproportionate number of the dead.
Analysis carried out for the research group Iraq Body Count (IBC) found that 39 per cent of those killed in air raids by the US-led coalition were children and 46 per cent were women. Fatalities caused by mortars, used by American and Iraqi government forces as well as insurgents, were 42 per cent children and 44 per cent women.
And by committing these atrocities we’ve achieved what?
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