Trent, that's funny, I just went to see CNN.com and Foxnews and I didn't saw iraqis civilians casualties count. Probably because there are none that exist, the closest we get it's an loose estimate.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
Like General Tommy Franks said : "We don't do body count". But I can see the name and picture of every US army servicemen killed in the conflict.
You need to distance yourself from politic, I am not an american, I don't care about republican, democrat. Hell if you guys want to send you soldiers and money ( 4 billions a month ) to fight a war, I seriously don't care or could do anything about it. What Jog and I are trying to say is that we should learn from the past to make sure we don't do the same mistake today.
For exemple, I have a complete belief that if during world war 2, the german population would have been aware of the atrocities committed in extermination camp, the nazi movement would have grinded to a halt. All the the germans population saw was victory for their country, they saw money made by their company ( BMW, Mercedes, BASF etc ), they saw a powerful and strong future. They never saw or made fully aware of the terrible toll Jews, Polish, Russians had to pay. Now lets forward to nowaday. You say that al-jazeera show civilians casualty and you aren't happy. This is war. This is the toll the iraqis pays.
You see I have a complete belief that if I showed americans the pictures of these iraqi casualties, this war would grind to a halt. Like vietnam did. Call me naïve if you must, but I trust commonsense to prevail.
If I can show you the picture of all the iraqis civilian casualties, and you can look in my eyes and tells me, "this is worth it", then that is your decision and I will respect it. But you at least would have seen the real picture.
So the United States invaded iraq for free newspaper ( free being an odd word since they are funded through the US reconstruction fund ). What about China? Oh right they are the country that own the most US public debts.
I don't think we are comparing Bush and Hitler, we are comparing war. I don't understand why no-one want to learn from the past. Didn't you learn from your past experience when you were younger?
I think now, germans feel to much guilt over world war 2, because we keep showing them atrocities through the history channel, but on the otherside americans doesn't have enough guilt for what they've done, because it's not shown to them. Most American have actually no problem about having dropped nuclear bomb on japan, even if they targeted civilians, but when al-quaeda did the same, you called them coward?
You can forgot the past, but it will always haunt you.
Hopefully you understand my point.