United States policies have caused the deaths of tens of millions of people from Iraq to the present.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
The claim's tens-of-millions figure is roughly an order of magnitude above the authoritative estimates: Brown's Costs of War puts total post-9/11 war deaths across several countries at about 4.5-4.7 million, and Iraq-specific tolls run from about 150,000 to roughly 1-2 million.
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… They don't have a problem. They don't have to project because they don't care. They have no connection either with good or evil; it's all the same to them. But for semi-normal people in that position, projection allows them to deal with the fact that their policies are causing the deaths, from Iraq to now, of tens of millions of people in the name of democracy. That has to be papered over in their brain in one way or another, and projection allows them to do it. It's a very common thing, and it can be collective as well as personal, and that kind of answers your question about what else, other than public …
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Contradicts. The Costs of War Project (Brown University, primary) estimates about 905,000-940,000 direct war deaths and 3.6-3.8 million indirect deaths across Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere, a total of 4.5-4.7 million, which is far below tens of millions.[1][2]
Contradicts. Iraq-specific tolls are far below tens of millions: Wikipedia cites 150,000 to over a million deaths, and Every Casualty reports 187,412+ civilian deaths and 300,000+ total conflict-related deaths for 2003-2024.[3][4]
Context. Common Dreams cites an advocacy estimate of 2.4 million Iraqi deaths, still well short of tens of millions.[5]
Context. The Daily Star op-ed cites a single estimate of 20-30 million deaths from US wars since WWII, attributed to James Lucas of Countercurrents.org. That is a non-authoritative estimate covering a much wider scope than Iraq and the present.[6]
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6 sources: 1 primary, 5 not rated
- 1Fact Sheet: The True Costs of the Post-9/11 Warscostsofwar.watson.brown.edu · primary source · cited for: contradicts
- 2'Everything changed': The human cost of 25 years of US warsaljazeera.com · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 3Iraq War - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 4Iraqeverycasualty.org · not rated · cited for: contradicts
- 5The Iraq Death Toll 15 Years After the US Invasion | Common Dreamscommondreams.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 6History pulls the wool over our eyes | The Daily Starthedailystar.net · not rated · cited for: context
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