The Human Cost of War on Iran

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4. Here is an interesting (sad) statistic

I just posted this on another thread, but in 20th century wars, the ratio of civilians to soldiers killed in war is 10:1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualty_ratio

Having been in a war first hand, I can tell you that the only people who win in war is the rich. It certainly isn't our Soldiers who return home a shadow of what they were as a result of both physical and emotional scars nor is it the civilians in the war zones who bear the brunt of the death.

It's easy to advocate for war when there is no chance that you'll ever have to actually deal with any of the results of it first hand. I wonder how many dead bodies George W. stuffed in a body bag in Iraq or if he gets teary-eyed when he looks at his kids and has flashes of the immages of a dying child he found in a field after a firefight. Nope, he left all that up to people like me who were ignorant enough to volunteer for military service under the belief that they were helping to make the world a better place.

It must be nice to be so far removed from the actual impact of the decisions that you make. I'm not rich so I don't get to enjoy that privaledge.