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Maraya1969

(23,475 posts)
5. I am still angry about this. And to think. Bush started 2 wars that killed
Wed Oct 21, 2020, 02:13 PM
Oct 2020

over 500,000. (I had read that the number was over a million but it is hard to count these things)

Either way those people who lied and cheated to get Bush in a responsible for this.

"Brown University’s Costs of War Project this month released a new estimate of the total death toll from the U.S. wars in three countries: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. The numbers, while conservatively estimated, are staggering. Brown’s researchers estimate that at least 480,000 people have been directly killed by violence over the course of these conflicts, more than 244,000 of them civilians. In addition to those killed by direct acts violence, the number of indirect deaths — those resulting from disease, displacement, and the loss of critical infrastructure — is believed to be several times higher, running into the millions."

https://theintercept.com/2018/11/19/civilian-casualties-us-war-on-terror/

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