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(2003) An Iraqi man comforts his 4-year-old son at a holding center for prisoners of war near An Najaf. Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War.

Source: https://www.worldpressphoto.org/collection/photo-contest/2004/jean-marc-bouju-pn/1

I noticed it was the anniversary of the Iraq War (march 20) So i decided to post this in remembrance of all dead. I'm not sure to mark as NSFW or not, or if this post belongs. I will understand removal

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Thanks for posting.
That war cost a million Iraqi lives (calculated by excess deaths). And not to forget all the others killed by the sanctions in the 90s and the Iran-Iraq war in the 80s, where the USA actually allied with Saddam and egged him on to start it.
For Iraq, the USA truly was the evil empire.
- And that was just one war in the wider war on terror. There were a lot of other countries (UK,Germany,Italy,Canada,France,Netherlands etc etc) but the US was the worst of them all.
  4.5+ million dead. 38 million displaced.
  PS: After the first gulf war, Iraq had to pay $52.4b+ dollars in reparations, since it was pressed by the UN security council. Guess how much the US paid in reparations for the invasion? Nothing. The UN didn't bother.
  Of course people are silent, it would take too much of a toll on their economy, therefore their convenience.
  
  The US still holds about $100B in oil money it stole from Iraq.
  But it actually stole way more, perhaps more than a trillion, which Iraq had to pay to private US contractors. The American taxpayers and soldiers got fleeced in that war, too.

- Its so fucking horrible how Iraq got destroyed BECAUSE OF A LIE and the politicians and war criminals involved got off Scot free.
  They've still yet to see a penny from the US as reparations. And of course, there is no international support. Don't forget the UK, Australia and Poland too (countless others on the war on terror in general, too)
  Al ghuraib, Haditha massacre, the countless other killings of civilians.... Its senseless and brutal. But to the west, Arabs aren't human enough for empathy I guess. (Unless they have oil, like the sauds)
  I'll check blowback later,.thank you for the link.
  
  Oil reserves in Iraq are considered the world's fifth-largest proven oil reserves, with 140 billion barrels.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Iraq
  
  I’ll check blowback later,.thank you for the link.
  Blowback is done by campist cretins, fair warning.
- At least they're paying for them now, in a way
  
  The people who prepetuated these crimes are in no way suffering. They're high on the hog at the moment.

For anyone who is interested in the awful torture techniques the CIA were using, presented in as much of a light hearted way a YouTuber can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEqrm9OIqro

I noticed it was the anniversary of the Iraq War (march 20) So i decided to post this in remembrance of all dead. I’m not sure to mark as NSFW or not, or if this post belongs. I will understand removal
No need for a NSFW tag, and it's both important and historical, so it definitely belongs.
- Yeah, thanks. I had more brutal pictures in mind, to represent the unjustifiable brutality that happened in Iraq, but that would be fucked up.
  I have more, but here's some:
  
  Yeah, thanks. I had more brutal pictures in mind, to represent the unjustifiable brutality that happened in Iraq, but that would be fucked up.
  Even brutal pics are welcome, as long as anything with death, gore, or the like is marked NSFW.
  History is often not pretty, especially when highlighting terrible crimes.

2nd Iraq War.
- Sorry, i'm confused. Do you mean the second gulf war? Because that's also called just the "Iraq War"
  Forgive me if i'm wrong.
  
  According to Wikipedia:
  1st Gulf War: 1980-1988, Iran vs. Iraq
  2nd Gulf War, 1st Iraq War: 1990/1991 US vs. Iraq
  3rd Gulf War, 2nd Iraq War: 2003
  
  I do.

90 years after Fao

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