Latest study suggests 151,000

This is never covered by the media, and Americans do not care. The large majority were also citizens, and militants defending their country from invasion. Yet the media sycophants say that "terrorists" are the enemy.

The definition of "insurgents" are those who "fight to overthrow the established government". It is the neocon-led U.S. invasion then that represents "insurgency" against the established government. Any illegitimate war for "regime change" by definition is an insurgency.

"Democracy" can also be an insurgency of wanton murder, e.g. see the French Revolution.

Human life is cheap in America.. From the beginning, our government and media put blinders on the American public. The rest of the world stood witness to atrocities of which we remained only vaguely aware..