No matter how one feels about the gulf war, its brutality should be a matter of some reflection for the governments of both the coalition countries and Iraq. the coalition armies did not suffer many casualties in the gulf war. Of the nearly two million coalition troops, only 355 died and 343 out of the 355 deaaths resulted from noncombat accidents. The iraqi government claimed that around 8,000 civilian lives were lost and around 100,000 military casualties due to the coalition air bombing. The Iraqi ministry of health attributed 41,000 deaths, including 13,000 children to direct impact of sanctions in the first four months of 1992, after the war had ended. The post-war casualties were greater than those during the war because of the economic and cultural sanctions that the united states have placed on the Iraqi people.
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