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In reply to the discussion: Poor "Shrub" Bush...it's slipping away... [View all]dpibel
(3,988 posts)You're telling me the invasion of Iran is not an illegal war based on lies? Just for starters, how about "two weeks from having a nuclear weapon."
Can you give me a cite for "death of over a million"? Here's [iThe Independent] saying the number is more like 300,000, although it admits that The Lancet puts the number of civilian deaths at 600K. Still not a million, let alone over. And here's NBC putting the number of civilian deaths at around 200K and the number of US servicemember deaths at 4,492 (they don't give a number for US contractors or Iraqi military, but I'd be a substantial amount that number is less than 800K).
Also, you're telling me that the Iran adventure has not destabilized the region? Have you at all been keeping up with the news?
As for comparisons, I know you believe, and have believed from around Day 3, that the Iran thingie (you do know it's impermissible to call it a war, right?) is over. But many of us are not seeing that. Perhaps we should wait until the thing is actually over before we compare body counts.
Finally, one of your repeated statements in support of Mr. Trump's Big Adventure is that those awful Iranian ayatollahs killed a bunch of Iranian protestors. Perhaps you were not around in the run up to Mr. Bush's Daddy-whompin', but one of the big justifications for that was that Hussein KILLED HIS OWN PEOPLE. Also, y'know, weapons of mass destruction, including, but not limited to the nuclear in a matter of days or weeks.
If you believe that war was illegal, I'm utterly at a loss to understand how you can support this one. Both wars of aggression. Both based on lies. Both led by profoundly stupid, profoundly insecure men.