This decade has been one in which the West’s resource wars in the Middle-East have escalated to unthinkable levels. According to Iraq Body Count, the number of recorded civilian deaths from violence since the war began in 2003 is between 94,544 and 103,160. The absence of a compulsory draft means most of us are well removed from what’s being done to innocent civilians thousands of miles away.
In contrast to the sanitized conflict represented on our TVs and in our newspapers, the internet allows us to witness the catastrophic consequences of our politicians’ actions marked on the bodies and lives of innocent men, women and children.
In memoriam to the forgotten 100,000, each of the following dots represents the death of a single civilian in Iraq to date.
“It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.”
Albert Camus
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”
Adolph Hitler
“War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.”
Charles Evans Hughes
“War does not determine who is right – only who is left.”
Bertrand Russell
“If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war.”
Pentagon official explaining why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War
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We shouldn’t have even gone to Iraq…I just watched Green Zone.
Thank you for this articleI am happy to part with you, I think that everything in the way of change and certainly I see things from the other side, we reflect on good Can I change the font color
Okay, I usually go for the laugh but this is some real cosmic truth Ann. I think that’s why I’m so fond of you.
How could a very few ppl with no nuclear power be a threat to the World’s most powerful country with the world’s most powerful army and weapons??
It’s time to admit the truth: the war in Iraq is due to oil and government contracts to private companies, not knocking down the Towers and killing so many Americans. The White House knew these terrorists were in the country and did NOTHING! They waste time and money chasing after Mexican illigals who do us no phyiscal harm, and are doing jobs most American lazy pelple will not lower themselves to do! QUIT LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ABOUT why we are in Iraq! We have oil resources here in American we could appropriate but for the goody two shoes who are on the side of minows, the gnats, the rats and the worms on the earth and care nothing about the people. Save the Whales, sacrifice the people! This country is being led by IDIOTS who are only interested in lining their pockets. WANT TO BE RICH? BECOME A CONGRESSMAN!
Thanks for this post. It’s important to understand the toll on the people of Iraq. This is ridiculously underreported.