I know it's the Fourth of July, and Americans want to feel good, wave the flag, etc, but, please understand why I can't join in. In a word, it's because of one thing: murder.
I am talking about the murder of millions of human beings the United States has killed since 9/11 in its so-called War on Terror. The number is definitely in the millions. Not tens of thousands, not hundreds of thousands, but millions of people. We are talking about genocide.
The Physcians for Social Responsibiity, to which I belong, reported one million people killed in Iraq alone, and that was by 2011.
Here is a very well-reasoned analysis of the death count in Iraq, and it contains a link to a similar look at the death toll in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The researcher is Nicholas JS Davies, author of Blood on Our Hands: The American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq, and he starts by pointing out that some studies have relied entirely on "passive reporting" which means just looking at government and media reports about casualties and not going on the ground in the war zone and doing an actual survey, where you ask people about the family and friends they have lost.
From looking at reliable studies, Davies claims that the death toll in Iraq is at least 1.5 million, and that's through 2018. But, he thinks that "the actual number of people killed (in Iraq) is likely to be closer to our main estimate of 2.38 million."
I hope you are having a great day, enjoying your family and friends, and may it last the whole weekend. But please: don't ignore what happened because ignoring reality has never done anybody any good, and you're better than that.
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