deepthunk
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- Feb 19, 2011
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And they told the media it could be as high as 50,000 American deaths to take Iraq.
I have often noted since the beginning of the Iraq war, that the American public is never told by the news media how many Iraqi deaths there were as a direct result of the U.S. invasion. I wonder at times whether thats because Americans simply dont care, or if the press is afraid of loosing all that close, cozy cooperation they have with the military and the military would prefer Americans not know.
In case youre wondering, more than 1 million Iraqi people died for the sake of bushs ambition (approximately the same number of Jews were killed by the Nazis in Poland), and some of that blood is on the hands of each and every single one of us, but none more than the American press.
The fact is that war was unnecessary and we had every reason to know it at the time, but those few who tried to speak out against the war were largely ignored by the press (who even went so far as to call those who spoke out against the war traitors), or silenced all too easily by the bush administration.
The fact is, the emperor was naked, but no one had the courage to say it, and now a million people are dead. Do Americans care? Not a bit. In fact when asked how many Iraqis they think died, most American guess a few thousand, because we are rarely, if ever told what the true cost of that war was.
So yes its true, there were no where near 50,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq. So take pride America, your military couldnt be any better at killing.
and Americans still ask why someone would fly a plane into a building killing 4000 Americans.
I personally wonder how many millions of people from other countries have to die before that call for blood is satiated.