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It is only "Us against Us"
It is only "Us against Us"
Although the U.S. military does not keep track of civilian casualties, a survey of news accounts by the nonprofit group Iraqbodycount.org indicates that 6,100 to 7,800 Iraqi civilians been have killed during the U.S. military campaign since March. A Times survey of Baghdad-area hospitals in May estimated that at least 1,700 Iraqi civilians died and more than 8,000 were wounded in the battle for the capital.
More recent deaths include the shooting of a 14-year-old boy at a wedding ceremony Thursday and of five Baghdad residents at an unannounced Army checkpoint in late July.
Erroneous shootings have fanned the anger toward U.S. troops in Iraq. A member of the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council said last week that most Iraqis were discontented with the U.S.-led forces because they "treat the Iraqi people with violence and contempt."
To many Americans, Iraqis are clannish, inscrutable strangers who fail to appreciate the U.S. troops who fought and died to liberate them. Worse, they are potential assassins or human bombs.
To many Iraqis, Americans seem remote, hostile, unpredictable and utterly ignorant of Iraqis' language and customs.