This from an obsessed friend today:
When it comes to crimes in US history, this is one of the top 5.
When it comes to the 21st century, this is the biggest US crime of all, and there have been plenty in the last 22 years.
Brown University estimates that we killed between 250,000 to 306,000 innocent civilians in Iraq.
The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. We use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
watson.brown.edu
The US became the certified biggest liar of the century when it lied to the UN and the world that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Not a single one was found in spite of the biggest Easter egg hunt in human history. Every General and Colonel were looking for an extra star on their epaulettes and a big promotion if they could find a single canister of Raid, but they found nothing, nothing at all.
A lot of people justified the invasion by saying the Saddam Hussein was a "bad man who poisoned his own people." Yeah, but did he kill 300,000 of his own people like our "good men and women" did who ordered the war based on their lies? Maybe we should invade ourselves with that same purpose. Those same people ordered the most ungodly torture there in the - get this - name of freedom. Yeah, everything foul we do gets washed in the holy water of that word.
And then if that weren't enough, we let our own soldiers get sick with toxic burning pits that roared 24 hours a day, day in and day out, without providing them any protection. Our military, after using them up and having no further use for them, told them to get lost when they complained about their suffering health.
Our murdering, lying leaders never were arrested and tried for war crimes. The MSM has said nothing about this shameful chapter in our history. I wonder why.
