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Don't nit-pic...really?  You blamed America and it's allies for hundreds of thousands of CIVILIAN deaths in those two wars.  That is not correct.  Lets try to be correct.

 

However, I see your point, which apparently is we should not have gone to war in Iraq and Afghan, thus avoiding the civilian deaths altogether.  Well I can agree partly, but not entirely.  Many have argued that Bush got it right with the Afghan war, but not Iraq.  We needed to act after 9/11 in taking out Al Qaeda and Bush effectively did that in Afghan.  Obama's escalation in Afghan has been a terrible failure, but the press refuses to report it.  Did you know Obama's surge in Afghan has resulted in more military deaths during his three years as POTUS than in all eight years of Bush?  http://cnsnews.com/news/article/1188-us-military-deaths-afghan-war-obama-became-president

 

Bush went to war in Iraq thinking he could install a democracy there, while eliminating a tyrannical dictator.  He was greatly influenced by the belief that democracies do not war against each other as was a espoused by R. J. Rummel, the great author and professor.  Who makes an excellent case that to stop war, genocide, and democide,  we must eliminate centralized power (aka dictatorships) because it always kills.


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