Who is responsible for the 650,000+ Iraqi civilian deaths? The U.S., insurgents, or religious sects?
813978
2.5% of Iraq's population has died...when?  Maybe provide some follow-up statement and context for your quesion.  I'm sure everyone will blame the US, it seems to be the cool thing to do lately.  I will give you this, the US did light the fuse in that part of the world, but it was bound to happen eventually.
633717
The people blowing themselves up are extremists and most likely they are not even Iraqis. If you have taken the time to notice, the American military has not been their target.  Their prime target has been Shites and their mosques, which would indicate to me that the Sunni/Shite battle is far from over.  Yet, these people insist on a Islamic littered government, with both factions sitting across the table from one another, trying to maintain a government.  When will they learn, when will they ever learn!
1078549
Juba, that's bull s*it and you know it.  Look at any headlines around the globe today, "22 Iraqi civilians killed..."  They are attacking civilians!  Militant Muslims want only one thing, convert or be killed.  The vast majority of the civilized world agrees to disagree - to a point.  We in the United States can put aside our differences long enough to keep the streets relatively safe, provide fire fighters, military, schools, etc.  I spent a year in Iraq as a combat infantryman and these Shi'ite, Sunni, and Kurds all believe the others are dogs.  They refuse to work together for BASIC needs of their countryman/kids/family.\n\nAl-Zarqawi didn't want peace, he wanted to slaughter anyone and everyone.  Look who sold his ass out?  It was one of his own boys!  His brutality and ignorance only alienated his comrades.
1109732
Any other answer would be idiotic speculation.The only result for sure will be more dead americans and Iraqis!Get real .This is the middle east.these countries have been fighting for hundreds of years!
1166716
It's a really sad thing that war has to happen at all, but the reality is, we lack the ability to kill exclusively those who really deserve it. The man, Al-Zarqaui, was barely human. If you look at his history as a "normal citizen" you'll see numerous charges like rape and narcotic possession/distribution. His death was a huge blow to terrorism and the terrorist opposition in Iraq specifically. It's a reality no one likes, but war is hell, and innocent people do die. Hopefully, though, Al-Zarqaui's death will be a key to ending this terrible conflict. Then the little girl who died would not have died as pointlessly.
29940
I'd estimate somewhere in the 40,000-50,000 range of Iraqi casualties. Of course, it could be much more, no one knows.
1167145
Terrorists are killing innocent Iraqis.  They want to have an Islamic empire where they rule.  Some intelligent Iraqis know the USA want to help them have a government with freedom and justice for the people.  That means religious freedom also.  In Islam there is no freedom for other faiths.  Other faiths get seriously persecuted.  \n\nThe USA is not killing the innocent.  If USA military does,  has to go to US court, decision is made if guilty or not guilty.  Just like if any one else murders someone.\n\nWe will win the war on terrorism.  The terrorists are the killers of innocent to terrorize the public to manipulate to control.  To a terrorists, it is okay to kill if it's for the cause of Islam.  Some Muslim people aren't Muslim enough or they're friend of US or they're children of an enemy of Islam.  If you don't convert or conform to Islam, then you're an enemy of Islam.  The only innocent Muslim is one who is one by the letter.  Basically, not one is that Muslim perfect.  Also,You have to deny Jesus the Son of God and deny that He died on the cross for your sins if you want to convert to Islam.
1038579
Mini, Al-Zarqawi was not an Iraqi.  He was from Jordon and entered Iraq to be a terrorist.\n\nI am not a Muslim but I was interested in the answers.
991351
Many million. No official figures exist because they are kept secret.\n\nHow many were murder at Da Nang? How many in the Kurdish attempt to assassinate Saddam? As before replace Kurds with Shiites.\n\nTianimin Square, Chechen, Timor, Somalia, Ivory Coast, Korea, Morocco, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Peru, Falklands, Suez, Libya, Kosavo, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia Serbia, Montenegro, Cyprus, Prague, Kiev, Minsk, Warsaw, Vietnam, Saudi, Iran, Mexico, Northern Ireland, Basque, Spain, Ethiopia,  Zaire (Democratic republic of Congo, Cabelaopia, whatever else they have called themselves post millennium). Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Israel, Palestine, Chile, the list goes on.\n\nSome wars do have a purpose. Most don't.
775338
That poll has been shot to death already, they asked 150 Sunni.  I am shocked that they didn't get 100% since the Sunni is Saddams people, 99% of the baathist party who lost power when we came in, no wonder they want us out.  BTW, they are also most of the insurgents and suicide killers in Iraq right now.
852877
The kidnappings and mass murders are being done by the insurgents. Only a relatively small percentage of Iraqis were killed by Americans. Almost all Iraqis were killed by foreign insurgents and by other Iraqis.\n\nThey kill each other there every day, and our troops get killed by getting between them.
975965
You seem to think that the same Iraqis who vote are the ones involved in the sectarian strife.\n\nThe people committing the violence are fighting to destroy the Iraqi democracy.\n\nDo not assume that a few terrorists speak for the Iraqi people.
1114432
You do hear about it.  The reported death tolls are almost always higher for Iraqis than for U.S. or coalition personnel.  (But it's not "their own roadside bombs."  The people who set the bombs are not usually killed by them.  It's Iraqi civilians or police who are usually killed.)
1169333
so you believe that because twenty or thirty people are killed that america is weak?\nWhat does that say for the 700 people rounded up after al zarqawi was killed in a US airstrike?\nWhat does that mean for UBL, living in a hole in the mountains and wiping his butt with leaves?\nWhat strength is there for a bunch of uneducated Arabs running for their lives every day until they are finally killed?
767513
It's a Civil War and has been declared one by the Iraqi Defense Minister!\n\nActually the "Official" death toll for Iraqi's for those for the past 4 1/2 months is  10,538!  Iraq claims it is lower, though the actual figures show it to be higher. The insurgents, who are Iraqi's, are increasingly targeting women!\n\nI don't have a clue how anyone can claim it is anything other than a civil war as more innocent Iraqi's are dying in 1 day than Americans in 1 month! We claim it is a war! And if it isn't, just what the hell is it?\n\nhttp://uk.news.yahoo.com/hot/i/iraq.html
1000481
This is not a good question. I would say define the fight that you see in the Muslim World, and I'll be able to tell you why you have the fight. \nIf Iraq is what you have on your mind, then Iraq has a large segment of Shia Muslims that were oppressed over the course of Sadam Hussein (who happened to be a Sunni, and who oppressed Sunnis as well) rule, and now the US enabled the Shia to claim power in Iraq. With that said now you have 3 reasons for fighting in Iraq:\n1- Getting the invaders (the US from the prospect of some Iraqis) out. \n2- Those who want to keep the old statuesque (mainly sunnis)\n3- Reprisal killings conducted by Death Squads (some infiltrating the current Interior Ministry) and those have been links to Shia factions taking out mostly Sunnis.\nHope that gives you a little bit of detail on the Iraqi situation.\n\nOne more element you need to take into account,  if I come out say "Christians in America are fighting each other, see what the Christian Eric Rudolph did to the abortion clinic run by fellow Christians, or see what the FBI Christian agents did to the Christians in Branch Davidian", I would not call these comments fair nor responsible. Muslims around the World who worship the one Creator of the Heavens and the Earth ought to get the same  fair and responsible treatment from the Christians in the West.
1187778
Iraq must split up into three sectarian states --Kurdistan, a Shi'ite province of Iran, and a Sunni landlocked nation.\n\nNo one will die for the geographical "Iraq" as a whole, so the group will keep killing each other until they are separate geopolitical entities.\n\nThe United States should have realized this when then invated in 2003; the US should have invaded and partitioned.  They WERE warned but the warnings were dismissed.\n\nIraq as a united country defending itself does not exist and will not come into existance.