The Staggering Death Toll in Iraq

[lordsummerisle]

Alternet
By Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J. S. Davies /

https://www.alternet.org/world/iraq-death-toll-15-years-after-us-invasion

The numbers are mind-numbing.

[sandensea]

1. But my how the money rolled in.

"Sometimes I feel this bad about what we did." "That much, huh?"

[spanone]

2. ...and for nothing.

[cilla4progress]

3. Horrific.

We have bad karma. Perhaps that explains what is happening to us now.

[democrank]

4. I can't even find the words.....

~PEACE~

[TEB]

9. Wow no words

Just saddens

[sinkingfeeling]

5. But they hate us for our freedom, not that we have caused all this death.

[Skittles]

6. PEOPLE ARE STILL DYING EVERY DAY BECAUSE OF GEORGE W. FUCKING BUSH

so any attempt to white-wash that warmongering piece of shit is SICKENING

[Blue_Tires]

7. Predictably, I looked up Benjamin's stories on Alternet

and only one time in the last three years has she even fucking mentioned Syria -- Which as you guessed completely whitewashed Moscow's involvement while pointing a finger at Washington...

https://www.alternet.org/world/end-war-syria

What are these optics on the left that can pinpoint every civilian death in Iraq and Yemen while having a HUGE blind/deaf/dumb spot to what's going on in Syria? Do innocent Syrian lives not mean as much? Or are they expendable on the altar of political ideology?

[hibbing]

8. Never forget

At least Colin Powell has pretty much stayed out of the public eye. I'll never forget that bizarre Meet the Press remote where his assistant tried to cut off the interview from off screen. However Condi and others were invited on shows to comment on the foreign policies of President Obama. Of course, this is nothing new, look at how the corporate media has genuflecteed in the presence of the esteemed Dr. Kissinger for decades.


Peace

[n2doc]

10. And hey, we gained a torturer CIA head too

At least, we will if drumph gets his way