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Yes, let's. You take care of the non-US citizen part and I'll give you a low-ball for the US citizens killed by other countries number.

If we use this handy wikipedia page shown below we can see that US military casualties are at a touch over 1.3 million.

Let me know when you're done being facetious and/or have an answer for your number of non-US citizens killed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualti...



That's 1.3 million since 1775. In the last 50 years, we're around 7 thousand.


In Iraq alone >10x that number have been killed since the invasion.


I was referring to American numbers, as sourced in the Wiki article above. 10x that number in Iraqi/ Afghani numbers? Sure, I'd buy that.


From my point of view, it was clear your comment and the GP both supported my insinuation that the US has killed far more people than it has lost.




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