Why is the White House afraid to show Bush’s 2003 aircraft carrier “Mission Accomplished speech” [1] in its full glory? Why has the video available on the White House site been so obviously hacked [1]?
Maybe the answer is best shown through statistics [2]:
At Mission Accomplished Since Mission Accomplished
U.S. Troops wounded 542 21,077
U.S. Troops killed 139 2,700
And don’t forget the Iraqi civilians. According to Lancet, [3] even back in 2004, “the risk of death by violence for civilians in Iraq [was] 58 times higher than before the US-led invasion.” Some sources now place [4] the civilian toll at 654,000 Iraqi civilians killed and 1,178,937 Iraqi civilians seriously injured.
I suppose that the White House response would be something like this: sometimes you have to kill 1/2 million civilians and allow another one million be seriously injured in order to “help” them.
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