Tuesday, March 15, 2005

War of Terrorism


This is a thought that I had in my mind for a while, and I thought I would share it with you.
The 9/11 attack ignited the start of Bush's infamous war on terrorism. A phrase that we are so used to hearing nowadays. First of all I want to clarify that the attacks were wrong, and served no purpose, other than to launch a large American offensive against the middle east.
So how many people died in the 9/11 attacks? According to Wikipedia, 2985 people. Directly after 9/11, the US launched a military attack in Afghanistan, in which according to a University of New Hampshire professor "at least 3,767 Afghan civilians had died in the first 8 ½ weeks of the war." After Afghanistan, Bush launched an illegal and pointless war on Iraq, with civilian casualties on the rise everyday. According to iraqibodycount.net, there is a minimum reported civilian casualties of 16,389 people, as of today.
So let’s do the math here. +16,389 + 3,767 = 20156 which by the way is a conservative, and rising figure; this is 7 times as many as the 9/11 casualties. Of course those casualties were all due to accidents from highly precise weaponry, imagine if they weren't so precise. My point here is that the war on terrorism has become in so many ways, the war of terrorism. Does Bush realize that he has just created more terrorists than there was in 2001? Maybe he does. But does he care? That I can answer for sure Posted by Hello

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