@Brent cv,
Brent wrote:We are not known as mass killers.

Can you please not over exaggerate your comments.
To BRENT, GOOD MORNING, GUTEN TAG, BONJOUR, SHALOM, SALAM !
Well, you're right, using "mass killers" are the wrong words to use.
Via the internet I read an article by ANTHONY GREGORY.
Anthony Gregory is a writer and musician who lives in Berkeley, California. He is also a research assistant at the "Independent Institute".
Reprinted from THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM FOUNDATION with permission are some excerpts that I feel is important enough to quote:
*** The U.S. government has killed civilians for well over a century.
During the Civil War, General Williams Tecumseh Sherman waged war on civilians.
During the Philippine Insurrection at the turn of the 20th century, U.S. forces killed about 200,000 civilians, and even had a policy to shoot anyone more than 10 years old who dared to resist the U.S. occupation of the Philipines.
TERRORISM (capitalizing by me), if it means anything, is a method by which civilians are the targets of violence for the purpose of achieving political goals. Having Imperial Japan surrender, even if a worthy goal, was nevertheless a political one, and the targetting of innocents to achieve that goal was an act of terrorism.
Indeed it was terrorism on an incredible large scale.
Hundreds of thousands (300,000 - my note) of innocent Japanese were instantaneously wiped off the earth on August 6 and August 9, 1945 (Hiroshima and Nagasaki - my note).
Many more died in the following years from the radioactive climate left behind by the bombing. ***
Do you think I should have used the words "Terrorist or terrorism" instead of 'mass killers' ?
I appologize for not using the "right" words.
BTW, researches at the Johns Hopskins University in Baltimore MD and Columbia University in the state of New York stated that the U.S., in the first 18 months of the Iraqi War has killed about 100,000 innocent Iraqi civilians , mostly women and children. (and counting - my note)