Seriously?

Yesterday, the new professor claimed that the US has killed more civilians in Iraq than in any other war. "They've never seen it this high, and it's because of how we're fighting - more guerilla-style".

She failed to substantiate this statement, and when she said it I got really angry. I didn't say anything, and I couldn't even identify the source of the anger. The statement was so blatantly false that it blasted through my crap detector like a shot from a rail gun.

Unless I'm sorely mistaken, terms like "firebombing" and "nuclear bombing" and "strategic bombing" did not come about as a result of the Iraq war. They came about as a result of the Allied air war in World War II, which makes a lot of sense because that's when these things were used. They were used there because World War II was an inter-state war and there was a need to break states as a whole. I don't really need to elaborate because anyone with a 10th grade education knows the rest.

I'm going to say something with no qualifiers, that is an absolute truth and short of a nuclear bombing campaign in Iraq, will always be true:

More civilians were killed by the US in World War II than in Iraq.

The idea that this surprises anyone or runs counter to their conclusions is baffling, given the difference in scale, strategy, and purpose of the two wars.

This professor is not tenured. I can see why.