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"The Iraq War itself cost the USA $5 trillion, and another ~4,500 lives (American lives, that is. The total number of casualties is well over 100,000)." Honest
by ryguytilidie 13y ago
"The Iraq War itself cost the USA $5 trillion, and another ~4,500 lives (American lives, that is. The total number of casualties is well over 100,000)."
Honestly I feel like the most understated danger in all of this is the 95,500 non-American deaths presumably caused by Americans. I imagine that each of those 95,500 or so has a family and many people who are angry and looking for revenge. It's pretty incredible that we have done all of this in the name of "safety" and have simply gone out of our way to recruit hundreds of thousands of people who want to kill Americans. Utterly amazing how modern human logic works.
- zanny 13y ago> Utterly amazing how modern human logic works. It isn't logical, its emotional. There is no logic in imperialism given historical evidence against it.
- einhverfr 13y agoSure there is logic. We are talking about destroying America. We are talking about us and therefore the rest gets omitted. If we want to talk about what the blowback will be from the Iraq war, then the rest of that is very relevant though.