Originally Posted by eleanoraquitaine

It is fairly frequent that I find the opportunity to inform people about muhammed and islam, in person. And, many people are completely unaware of the facts about muhammed being a child rapist pedophile, or having been an evil conqueror that started numerous wars to spread his cult, etc, etc. Most are astonished to hear how this "religion of peace" was actually started in violence and has spread through violence ever since. And most are glad to be informed, even I find many democrats and liberals. Many of which may not even quite see things clearly right away enough to support my full case but they move toward my position rapidly and will continue to do so as islam continues to escalate their stupid jihad making their evil abundantly clear.

Because after all, despite the apologists and appeasers fantasies, "radical islam" is on the rise, dramatically, all across the world. So, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that islam will ever reform itself and become peaceful. No, just as Germany and Japan had to be totally defeated in order to achieve reform, so to must islam.

Originally Posted by catawba

I never claimed that 100,000 civilians died by American hands. I merely state the fact that our invasion and occupation has resulted in 100,000 civilian deaths.

This is figure approximates the numbers from Iraq Body Count, the most well documented, and highly regarded, source of civilian Iraq deaths from violence during our war with Iraq.
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/