Douglas Johnson wrote:
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yeah bush is just under hitler for causing unnecessary war deaths.

Nonsense. Bush is not even in the top ten. Although you can debate
"unnecessary", let's call all the civilian deaths in Iraq as
"unnecessary" and say, pessimistically there were 100,000. The
estimates range from 33,000 to 638,000.

Viet Nam had roughly 600,000 civilian deaths on both sides. Rwanda
had 1,000,000 civilian deaths. There were 3,000,000 civilian deaths
in China for WWII, 2,500,000 for the USSR. Pol Pot killed off
1,500,000 in Cambodia. Roosevelt was responsible for 300,000 civilian
deaths in Japan. There were 200,000 civilian deaths in the
Philippines rebellion 1898 to 1902 (McKinney and the first Roosevelt).


"Civilian" is not the same as "non-combatant." Civilians working in war
industries are just as much a legitimate target as soldiers in the trench.

Usually, though, killing "civilians" is a terror tactic, not a strategic
one. In spite of the bombing and so forth, German armaments production rose
continually throughout the war, even until March 1945.