Carefully Counting the Dead
Let’s see . . . We attacked Iraq because “they killed 3,000 Americans.” Besides being racist (it assumes that all people from the Middle East are the same, when we’ve always known that Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks), this war cry has proven to be a grossly irrational wasting of lives and national resources.
We’ve now killed more than 30,000 Iraq civilians to “right” this wrong of 9/11. And we’ve spent $300 billion to get the job done. And we’ve proudly employed torture. And we lie that we are trying to establish “democracies” when we are actually trying to empower thugs who will be friendly to U.S. business interests–witness the Palestinian elections and our constant meddling in Iraqi politics. In the process of waging this war in Iraq, we are enraging millions of middle-eastern people who are making the destruction of America their lives’ work.…