These numbers are from Brown University's "Costs of War" project, statistics from our invasion of Iraq.
For the love of God, can someone explain to me what we gained for our human and financial expenditures? How much suffering could we have eased at home with $2.2 trillion? How many wives are without husbands? Husbands without wives? Parents who lost children? Children who will grow up without one of their parents? For what?
I'm sure there are those who can find justifications for the Iraq War, but in the end it was an immense disaster and not worth the blood and money we--and the people of Iraq--paid.
The old Lie, indeed.
Peace,
emaycee
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