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will, thx for the response. im not going to provide one of my usual thorough replies because i really just dont feel good. i seem to have developed insomnia.
but i will say that i did not say 'on par', but on scale. i did not wish to give the impression that i did. however, this is something that is pretty much impossible to qualify and quantify since body count is the statistic that matters the most with regards to these tragedies but that doesnt make it synonymous with inhumanity.
in the realm of body count this war/occupation is nothing, sadly. almost 100k some sources say. ww2 was about 55mil. but when looking at just body count the rwandan genocide was a measly sub-1mil, yet i dont think anybody would ever say its not on par with the most inhumane campaigns in human history. same goes for spanish inquisition.
also, in many horrors of history, racking up deaths was actually pretty easy. things as simple as forced poor sanitation and famine. im in no way saying that murdering via those are any less than any other way, but trying to point out that its much more difficult for postmodern civilizations to rack up deaths than more medieval ones. this is due to political structures imo. like i dont think that its possible for the US to foster a leader who would engender results on par with hitler. global and US national politics are just different enough. i could be wrong about that, but its not an important issue.
if this doc is true, then basically what the campaign in iraq has done is plummet an entire country into anarchy and create an entire country of enemies with capabilities in terrorism.
now what would you say if as a direct result of the corrupt US campaign (which according to the video, like i said, the campaign has been waged as awfully as possible its as if it was all a sick joke) iraqi military soldiers turned islamic fundamentalist terrorists got ahold of a nuke and blasted DC? the result would be different, but the people behind it would stay the same. how do you qualify a greater inhumanity due to amounts of people affected and how?
it looks to me that the bush administration has done the absolute best job they possibly can to fuck things up. i find that an important factor with regards to inhumanity.
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