180 Dead Heros

[Gert van Santen]

Op 23-1-2012 15:03, Tony Scharf schreef:
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:47 AM, ibi sum<ibisum at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> The one thing I don't like: they are not heroes.
>>
>
> Not to turn it political, but I agree with Jay.  I consider them
> victims of someone elses politics.  I don't even know how many US
> soldiers have been killed (I know it is in the thousands) and it was
> all on a lie.  It was a foregone conclusion that we were going to
> attack Iraq on the day GWB took office.  He just needed a reason,
> manufactured or otherwise.
>
> And that doesn't even get into the numbers of dead Iraqis, most of
> them civilians.

I agree. Most wars - perhaps even all - are based on lies. They 
are thought up by elites, who will happily live on while 
civilians and soldiers (who are also civilians) die by the millions.

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Gert
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