150 000 civilians killed in Iraq. Does Bush have them on his conscience?
820795
as per the recent poll conducted by the guardian news paper, bush outranked the presidents of Iran and north Korea who are regarded as danger to world peace. the poll was conducted in Canada, Israel, the UK and the USA and in some countries he was second to osama. the peace loving , democratic people of the USA sent signals to the world that they do not approve bush's policy in Iraq. the number of civilians killed is not 150000 but more than 600000 and all third world countries must unite and denounce bush's policy in Iraq and bring pressure on the UN to establish an international tribune for the trial of bush for war crimes in Iraq.
719686
Civilian casualties are a fact of war yes, but there is recorded video footage of American and, I am truly ashamed to say, British soilders and officers killing civilians in cold blood.  There have been many photos and videos leaked to the press and shown on the internet of soilders harassing and even torturing innocent civilians before, in some of the worst cases, killing them.\n\nThis is obviously against the code of war and the Geneva Convention and so yes, those found to be responsible for these actions must be charged accordingly, and even more so as they are representative of their respective countries.
917694
I don't think he fits either category.  However, it's plain that he had the recipe for keeping Iraq's fractured, divided peoples under control.  650,000 dead Iraqis later, we still don't have the country under control, and not much chance of ever achieving control.  It's ironic that he has been tried and convicted for killing Iraqis, with the huge number of Iraqi deaths that have occured since he was removed from power.\n\nGiven the response to the verdict today, clearly the reactions are falling along the predicted sectarian lines.  To some he's a villlian; to others a hero, and soon, a martyr.
919625
who says he is good guy? maybe you are the one who only "thinks" report says 500000 People killed in iraq... which is started by BUSH!
1000508
Its probably exagerated figure, the estimate is about 150.000 before the destruction of Fallujah..\n\n189-190 000 is a more accurate figure..regardless of the accurate figures, The war or iraq is a gratuitous act of barbarism upon one of the most helpless people\n\nThe american people who voted for Georges Bush should also bear responsiblity for these crimes..As a Canadian I cannot show more disgust.\n\n\n\nThis said I would like to point out to the neo-fascists warmongerer below that Bush that Bush is closer to nazims than you think; specially look at the last link, note, I have no reason to lie to you, I am not the government\n\nSRH look at this :\nChickenhawk\n\nhttp://66.230.230.110/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=20040602034902878\n\nReagan and Bush\nhttp://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=20040618050418549\n\nFascism\nttp://www.tbtmradio.com/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=2004060321522468\n\nBush family trade with nazis:\nhttp://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/article.php?story=20040603030134634&query=nazi\n\nhmm better another flash video..\n\nhttp://www.tbtmradio.com/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=20040606194007963\n\nNats you are really complacent on the death of others:\nAmerican soldiers should desert. refuse to kill people. period.\n\nA bit more on Bushites..\nhttp://www.tbtmradio.com/geeklog/public_html/staticpages/index.php?page=20040606194007963\n\nThis forRock Hunter below..\n\nBush is no Nazi so stop calling him that!\n\nhttp://www.takebackthemedia.com/bushnonazi.html
605320
I heard 250,000 civilians in Iraq alone.  And it's not just Afghanistan and Iraq.  There are other conflicts the U.S. has had a hand in that they WILL NEVER tell you about.  If you think about that sh!t, I don't think you'll want to keep reading what you've been reading.
150661
Both, but Bush has the potential to do much greater harm over time. His embargo on Iraq accounted (according to UN Relief) for the death of about 500 thousand children over nearly 10 years. If he goes on, the toll on the arab countries might entitle the Bush family for an award for genocide against all arab nations, I say award because I doubt he'll ever be tried to crimes (like last week's bombing of a Pakistani village over the Iraq border murdered a few peasant families) but who cares about these things, anyway.
195188
WHAT F**KING INNOCENT CIVILIANS HAVE BUSH OR AMERICAN TROOPS KILLED.\nI SAY IF PRESIDENT BUSH AND AMERICAN TROOPS WENT INTO IRAQ TO KILL CIVILIANS THIS WAR WOULD HAVE BEEN OVER 1 HOUR AFTER IT STARTED.\nTHIS WAS NEVER A QUESTION.\nTHIS IS JUST A PLATFORM FOR YOU AND ALL THE OTHER BUSH BASHERS TO MEET.\nWISH I COULD TELL YOU TO KEEP YOUR TWO POINTS.
908932
Before that will happen, we have to be rid of the Bush/Cheney control of our government.  What is happening to the people, the civilians, is just collateral damage to these guys.  The have bigger fish to fry, and they don't give a damn about the casualties, ours or theirs.  They are in the Middle East to plunder, and are using our troops to protect their agents like Halliburton who carry it out.  When they are gone, we will then be faced with the monumental humanitarian job left over from their activities, which will include the restoration of what is left of Iraq and Afghanistan, and bringing some kind of relief and ordinary life back to their people.
716665
Iraqis are killing each other.  The only thing President Bush is guilty of is trying to keep us safe on our own soil.  All is fair in love and war.  It's a war and I should know---my husband is deployed there.
500916
They have committed crimes against humanity. 2500 of our guys and 10's of thousands of Iraqi have died because mistakes were made. Bush and Blare are the top dogs and responsible for those deaths, because of mistakes. Bush has committed crimes because of the interment of people without due process. Not allowing the red cross to visit is against the Geneva convention, not releasing name of the prisoners. ect. ect. ect. I do think that both should have to go to the Hague and be tried for these crimes.
1109391
no surprise.  how many lives of innocent Iraqi children did he save?
14451
This is not exactly a Law & Ethics question.  Nevertheless, no, Iraq is not bound for its own self-destruction, at least no more so than when Saddam Hussein was running the country and slaughtering his own people.
997952
Paul Wolfowitz, who fashioned the phony intellectual underpinnings of this catastrophe, told us that Iraqi oil revenues would cover the cost of reconstruction. He was as wrong about that as the president was about the weapons of mass destruction. (And as wrong as Dick Cheney was last June when he said the insurgency was in its last throes.). Here are the facts: The war so recklessly launched by the amateurs in the Bush White House has already taken scores of thousands of lives, and will ultimately cost the United States $1 trillion to $2 trillion. No one has been held accountable for this. While Mr. Bush's approval ratings are low, the public has been largely indifferent to the profound suffering in Iraq. This is primarily for two reasons: Because most Americans have no immediate personal stake in the war, and because the administration and the news media keep the worst of the suffering at a safe distance from the U.S. population. \nThe killing of American troops is usually kissed off with a paragraph or two in the major papers, and a sentence or two, at best, on national newscasts. \n(Imagine if someone in your office, sitting at a desk across from you, were suddenly blown to bits, splattering you with his or her blood. You wouldn't get over it for the rest of your life. This is what happens to the Americans and other racist crusaders on daily basis in Iraq.) \nThe 250,000 of Iraqis who are killed - including babies and children who are shot to death, blown up, or incinerated - remain completely unknown to the American public. So not only is there very little empathy for the suffering of Iraqis, there is virtually no sense among ordinary Americans of a shared responsibility for that suffering. Despite the frequently expressed fantasies expressed by President Bush and some of the leading politicians of both parties, the idea of a U.S. victory in Iraq is an illusion. The nightmarish violence is rising, not receding. Iraq is not being pacified. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a bustling market in Basra over the weekend, killing 27 and wounding scores. On Sunday, 20 people were stopped and pulled from their vehicles on a highway near Baquba and shot to death. \nJohn Burns, writing in yesterday's New York Times, told us: "The death toll in one of the most grisly recent attacks, in the village of Hadid, near the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, rose to 17 on Tuesday when the police delivered nine severed heads to the Baquba morgue in the fruit boxes in which they were found in the village." \nEight other heads had previously been found. \nInstead of beginning to pull our troops out of Iraq, we are sending more in. The permanent Iraqi government, which was supposed to be the answer to everybody's prayers, is a study in haplessness. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda's man in Iraq, remains at large. (As does Osama bin Laden, somewhere in Pakistan.) \nAs was the case with Vietnam, the war in Iraq is a fool's errand. There is no clear mission for American troops in Iraq. No one can really say what the dead have died for. And yet the dying continues. \nMilitary commanders in the field in Iraq admit in private reports to the Pentagon the war "is lost" and that the U.S. military is unable to stem the mounting violence killing 1,000 Iraqi civilians a month. Even worse, they report the massacre of Iraqi civilians at Haditha is "just the tip of the iceberg" with overstressed, out-of-control Americans soldiers pushed beyond the breaking point both physically and mentally. "We are in trouble in Iraq," says retired army general Barry McCaffrey. "Our forces can't sustain this pace, and I'm afraid the American people are walking away from this war."\n\nhttp://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11674.htm\n\nNumber Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered By The Americans: As Many As 250,000\n\nhttp://www.marchforjustice.com/shock&awe.php\n\nCost of War\nBelow is a ru
796837
Bush went to war in Iraq illegally probably thinking that he will have an easy task of taming us and looting our oil. Suprise suprise we resisted and very few oil tankers have managed to get through. So he has resorted to mass murder of Iraqi's and very conviniently blaming this on insurgents to dupe the world. He encourages the shias to masacre the sunnis who are deemed Sadam supporters. Notice very few times are American soldiers killed during these bombings,its mostly sunnis. What has not got into Bush's thick head,is that by supporting shias he is strenthening Iran's powerhold in this country. Over and above the people that Bush has killed, he is laying the ground work for genicide of the sunnis. Bush and his hench men should be triad for his war crimes against humanity and world peace. WE CAN NOT AND WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE AT ANY COST.
548721
This whole war is but one gigantic global farce. Bush's approval rating is so low that he should have been impeached months ago and the war stopped immediately taking into consideration the thousands of lives it has already claimed. The problem is all the money that has been put into this madness and the  lobbies that are behind the scenes. So it is, once again ladies and gentlemen, for money that so many more lives shall be sacrificed and twice as many lies be told.
598859
Well, I guess the answer to this question is really in your "heart."  Are you outraged by attacks on civilians in the heart of your own country?  Are you deeply offended to know that civilians in Iraq (and other countries) are slaughtered so that "righteous" religious factions can make a (dubious) point?  Does it bother you at all that any low life dirt bag can claim "jihad" and attack anyone he or she wants without provocation?  if these, and any one of a thousand other wrongs, being called "right" by riffraff who only want to blame their bad actions on someone else, are offensive to you, then we are doing the right thing.