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> the US that has in just the last 20 years (a) attacked several countries and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people Where do you get your anti-US
by sheepmullet 8y ago
> the US that has in just the last 20 years (a) attacked several countries and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people
Where do you get your anti-US propaganda from?
I think the combined civilian death toll by US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq is ~40,000.
That’s not a good number - but it’s a long way away from hundreds of thousands.
- NeedMoreTea 8y agoWikipedia perhaps? "Credible estimates of Iraq War casualties range from 151,000 violent deaths as of June 2006 to 461,000 total deaths as of June 2011"
- sheepmullet 8y agoAnd did the US murder all of these people? And are all these people innocent civilians? Wikipedia has the breakdown.
- uRreading2slow 8y ago> War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. > To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. -- Judgement of the International Military Tribunal for Germany