Reply #12: When I see this kind of story I automatically think 'look at what we're doing

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to these people, at the lives we are forcing them to lead'. Because make no mistake, the casualty rate for Iraqi's is around 90% if you consider a 'casualty' to be a person who, even if alive and breathing, has basically lost their lives to this 'war' on terra. We have caused heartbreak and heartache that will be felt for generations. And it will fester into bitterness, anger, and thoughts of revenge in those who feel that they have nothing left to live for, nothing to hold on to, and nothing left to lose. We are keeping them prisoner in their own country. That is after we destroyed, totally bombed into oblivion, one of the most advanced and beautiful cities in the Middle East. Baghdad, the city of majesty, mystery, culture, learning. People forget, this area is one of the original centers where what we called 'a civilized society' was first developed. And we took it back to the Stone Age. We not only took their wifes, husbands, children, parents and friends from them. We took their history too. And strangely enough, I think that is one of the worst things we've done to them. They can lay claim to thousands of years of learning and history and what happens? A 200+ year old country being run by greedy, crooked, horrible old white men (no racist shit intended, but just take a look at the PNAC) who think THEY should be able to determine the world's fate and in the meantime lay their once proud and beautiful country to waste.

And for that they will hate us forever.