An Afghani governor, describing how US missile attacks are perceived by non-Taliban Afghanis.

Dear ... "They think the Americans deliberately want to kill Muslims". and this is what Bush said, loud and clear, before.

I would suspect it's a meaningless distinction if you're a woman, child, or innocent of resisting foreign invasion -- if you get killed or wounded on purpose or by accident.

I don't think most Americans care very much about civilian casualties, though. We really have no idea how many civilians have been killed in Iraq; certainly the number is not reported at all. We hear on TV at least once a week about 4K U.S. soldier killed but nothing at all about Iraqi dead.

This is probably in the nature of war.

Propaganda supplies what we hear/read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

Iraqi Health Ministry survey: 151,000 violent deaths out of 400,000 excess deaths due to the war. June 2006

Lancet survey: 601,027 violent deaths out of 654,965 excess deaths. June 2006

Opinion Research Business survey: 1,033,000 violent deaths as a result of the conflict. August 2007

http://en.wikipedia.or/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War