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Only depraved terrorists would use weapons of mass destruction again and again on innocent men, women and children to achieve some commercial gain.

Greed, murder, greed.

The scandalous underestimation of Iraqi civilian casualties

10 years in Iraq   by Lily Hamourtziadou

“The killings were committed by many different perpetrators and by a variety of methods; coalition forces, insurgents, terrorists, American soldiers, British soldiers, Sunnis, Shia have brought about the death of innocents through air strikes, suicide bombings, car bombs, shootings, IEDs… The victims, people from all walks of life: shepherds, street cleaners, construction workers, policemen, doctors, clerics, teachers, journalists, politicians, school children… Killed as they walked, shopped, worked, drove, slept, changed a tyre…”

On the failure of the US propaganda campaign about ‘winning’ the Iraq war:  Photo op goes wrong –  The Deaths In Zabul

Fighting drone wars behind our back: cheap, invisible and risk-free mass murder

Stephen Lendman on  Globalized Torture

“America’s the world’s leading human rights abuser. State terror is official policy. So is waging war on humanity.
Guantanamo operates lawlessly. It’s America’s public face. It’s the tip of the iceberg.”

The Orwellian Paradigm – Killing you, for your own safety by Faisal Moghul

“Terrorism has no shape, mass, or boundary; it is an abstraction, a tactic of asymmetrical warfare used to achieve political goals. Imagine if Franklin D. Roosevelt had declared “war on surprise attacks” in the wake Pearl Harbor, or if Lyndon Johnson had vowed to defeat guerilla warfare in Vietnam. This linguistic construct, therefore, ensures an open-ended conflict with no conceivable end.“

In the Army Now: Gangs, Nazis & the Mentally Ill  By Clark Stooksbury

“One disturbing commonality between gang members and neo-Nazis is the possibility that they look upon the military as a training ground for their own private wars.”