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In reply to the discussion: Obama is BOUND BY LAW to prosecute torture. [View all]cheapdate
(3,811 posts)The entire Iraq War was a crime and the magnitude of the destruction, death, and misery it caused completely dwarfs the relatively small number of detainees who died in U.S. custody.
A single US bomb during the initial "shock and awe" campaign destroyed a structure where hundreds of Iraqi women and children were sheltering. Many times more innocent people were killed in this one incident than all of the detainees who were killed in U.S. military custody.
More immigration detainees have died in U.S. immigration custody over the past eight years (around 126) than detainees who died in military custody (around 50).
By an order of magnitude, more innocent civilians (around 2,000) were killed during Israel's last campaign in Gaza.
It's all horrible. I don't fault you for demanding justice.