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Around half a million innocent Afghani and Iraqi civilians died in Afghanistan and Iraq during those wars. I dont understand why the American news media neglec

Around half a million innocent Afghani and Iraqi civilians died in Afghanistan and Iraq during those wars. I dont understand why the American news media neglected to report on that. Another interesting observation: Halliburton ran the supply chain for both the Vietnam war and the Gulf wars. Not alot of sympathy from me for that guy.

belter 5y ago
For the younger generation who might have missed the reference ...Halliburton was the company the vice president used to be CEO of. Yes you read that correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton
bhouston 5y ago
I was against the Iraq war as well. It was clearly based on lies. It also lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. What surprised me and I noticed then when Donald Rumsfeld died. Both Iraqi and Afghanistan have nearly doubled their populations since 2001: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/iraq-population/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/iraq-populati... https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/afghanistan-population/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/afghanistan-p... I wonder if that was partly resulting from the aid both of them got after the US invasions? Or just general population trends in Middle East countries? From my quick study it appears they have higher population growth than surrounding countries.
- timbit42 5y ago
  Countries with little to no rights for women tend to have more children because the women have little to no access to contraception.
  - bhouston 5y ago
    Iraq and Afghanistan are trending higher than Iran, Egypt and Jordan.
  - 1cvmask 5y ago
    Contraception and abortion are legal in India. India even had a female head of state before western countries. That didn’t prevent their population growth.
- 1cvmask 5y ago
  Maybe you produce more children when you expect to lose some of them to bombings.
  - bhouston 5y ago
    I think you are right here.

belter 5y ago

For the younger generation who might have missed the reference ...Halliburton was the company the vice president used to be CEO of. Yes you read that correctly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton

bhouston 5y ago

I was against the Iraq war as well. It was clearly based on lies. It also lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis. What surprised me and I noticed then when Donald Rumsfeld died. Both Iraqi and Afghanistan have nearly doubled their populations since 2001: https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/iraq-population/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/iraq-populati... https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/afghanistan-population/ https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/afghanistan-p... I wonder if that was partly resulting from the aid both of them got after the US invasions? Or just general population trends in Middle East countries? From my quick study it appears they have higher population growth than surrounding countries.

timbit42 5y ago
Countries with little to no rights for women tend to have more children because the women have little to no access to contraception.
- bhouston 5y ago
  Iraq and Afghanistan are trending higher than Iran, Egypt and Jordan.
- 1cvmask 5y ago
  Contraception and abortion are legal in India. India even had a female head of state before western countries. That didn’t prevent their population growth.
1cvmask 5y ago
Maybe you produce more children when you expect to lose some of them to bombings.
- bhouston 5y ago
  I think you are right here.