Comment by EGreg

Sadly, the body counts were NOT WILDLY inflated.

2 million civilians died in Afghanistan because we armed jihadists in a proxy war against the USSR, creating a “vietnam” for them

The CIA playbook was the same:

And they admit it themselves, though hardly care about the civilian casualties:

I wish I was exaggerating. I dont think you read most of my comment or clicked the links, but just replied after reading the first 1-2 paragraphs.