We've killed a million Iraqis since the start of the Gulf war - mostly by blocking humanitarian aid.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
At least 23,000 civilians have also died in the Iraqi killing field and the U.S. is stuck in a quagmire.
In the three years since our nation began operations in Iraq, more than 2,500 Americans have been killed and more than 18,000 Americans have been seriously wounded.
There are a lot of Iraqi people we can never pay back for what we've done.
The people of Iraq have suffered greatly.
Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
We're not going to cure terrorism and spread peace and goodwill in the Middle East by killing innocent people, or I'm not even saying our bullets and bombs are killing them. The occupation that they don't have food. They don't have clean water. They don't have electricity. They don't have medicine. They don't have doctors.
Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.
We do not kill an Iraqi.
We don't kill Iraqis - our hands do not kill Iraqis. But we target only the occupier with all the means of resistance.