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Yes as your comment and lawyers comment below show there was a veneer of “we are war professionals, our war is legal and just” and I was listening to every patr
by salad-tycoon 3y ago
Yes as your comment and lawyers comment below show there was a veneer of “we are war professionals, our war is legal and just” and I was listening to every patriotic song that came out celebrating every bomb. My highschool had some highlights of iraq being bombed to the tune of “let the bodies hit the floor.”
At the end of the day war is a racket, the prescence of the lawyer detailing what he did below should only raise everyone’s BS meter to “overload.”
I’m not sure if it was a million we killed or 600k or maybe less but the defense of “many of those weren’t us, it’s was subsequent totally unrelated non us involved” is also a very lawyerly statement. Like, we only lit this one tree on fire maaaannn, we didn’t light the whole damn neighborhood!
Let us not forget the Wikileaks either as a self purported hacker community. 12 unarmed men gleefully murdered by an Apache helicopter (including 2 ap reporters). [1]
Let’s also not forget Madeleine Albright defending the death of 1/2million Iraq children in 1996. When asked by 60 Minutes reporter Lesley Stahl "We have heard that half a million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?", Albright replied "I think this is a very hard choice, but the price - we think the price is worth it." [2]
For what it’s worth, I am a US patriot, I just don’t excuse our BS behavior as I’ve been sold the whole “we are very careful, we have lawyers and 2ndary explosion analysts” line one too many times.
The price is always worth it to certain people and industries. I’m not ragging on the lawyer below, I hope he was able to do some good. But it’s all bullshit, from start/middle/end (Afghanistan withdrawal, you should have seen the look on vets faces as they realized every sacrifice, buddy lost, person killed was completely and totally pointless, but don’t worry we have a national suicide call line)
1 https://hackcur.io/collateral-murder-wikileaks-iraq/ https://hackcur.io/collateral-murder-wikileaks-iraq/
2 https://x.com/theserfstv/status/1506706179178725379?s=46 https://x.com/theserfstv/status/1506706179178725379?s=46
- spywaregorilla 3y agoWe are not saying the war was just. It was not a just war. We are saying the US military, as an organization, takes targeting decisions seriously and slowly.