Who's the real successful terrorist group? Really makes you think.

Source from here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_on_terror and i took the lower # all the estimates, so it's likely much higher. Death to amerikkka, of course.

  • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
    hexagon
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    3 years ago

    Yes, but the estimate was on wikipedia so yeah it's probably severely lowballed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War

    The estimates vary considerably. The high number that most of us remember in the millions they obscure by using some bullshit stats tactics to make it not count "excess deaths"

    I did not add the higher estimates because libs gonna lib and will do the Well Actually thing, and i think even just showing this much discrepancy of civilian deaths -- over 100 times the deaths caused by 9/11 - is strong enough on it's own.

      • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        These figures do not include deaths caused by disease, loss of access to food, water, infrastructure, and/or other indirect consequences of the war.

        Honestly, I'd like to see a credible source calculate surplus deaths of the two wars. Wars and regime change come with significant human costs, and I really want to see it quantified, without again using some TrueAnon source. I mean, I love the pod, but some of the people they have on area really kooky. Like I'm sure the RFK assassination has interesting stuff to talk about, but then why are you inviting on some person who instantly jumps to some random supernatural stuff?