Currently 2,782 Americans have died in the war in Iraq (العراق). That is a very high number. Imagine that you go to work by bus every day. Imagine that the bus is full in both directions. Then imagine that every bus during one month falls down an abyss and everyone in that bus dies - both in the morning and the evening. Then you get roughly the number of American deaths in Iraq.
And yet, this was not a war in America. How many Iraqis have died? According to research referenced to by The Economist, the number probably is around 650,000 and it may be close to one million. This is excess deaths, the number of persons who died due to the war, and who probably would not have died, if Saddam Hussein (صدام حسي) had stayed in power.
That means around 4% of the Iraqi population has died. And about 0.001% of the American population has died.
If you ever wonder why some Iraqis are not grateful for having been liberated by America, consider those numbers.
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