Mainstream Media Journalist Exposes How the US ‘War on Terror’ Increased Terrorism by 4,500%
So after all the talk in last night's Republican Debate about ISIS and Muslim Terrorists, let's back up a little bit and take a closer look at what $6,000,000,000,000.00, 7,000 KIA's, and 22 Veteran Suicides/Day has accomplished since we started the "WAR ON TERROR", and what we can expect from a future under "leadership" by a large part of the Republican Party or the Democratic Party.
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From the article:
“According to reports from our own U.S. government, reports of deaths from terrorism in the Middle East between 2002 and 2014 have increased 4,500 percent.
But let’s go a little deeper. Take for instance just the country of Iraq. Before the 2003 U.S. invasion, do you know how many suicide attacks there were in Iraq? None. In the country’s history there had never been one. But since the 2003 invasion, there have been 1,892.
And what about Afghanistan? Just last year alone, insurgents killed 2,643 civilians last year—the highest number since U.N. records began.
How about Pakistan? In the 14 years prior to 9/11 there was one suicide attack on Pakistani soil. In the 14 years since, there have been 486 suicide attacks.
The same is true in the past 14 years in Somalia (88), Yemen (85), Libya (29), Nigeria (91), and Syria (165).”
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And where are the 1.5million Christians that were living in their native country of Iraq before 2003? That's a question for Conservatives.
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From the article:
“According to reports from our own U.S. government, reports of deaths from terrorism in the Middle East between 2002 and 2014 have increased 4,500 percent.
But let’s go a little deeper. Take for instance just the country of Iraq. Before the 2003 U.S. invasion, do you know how many suicide attacks there were in Iraq? None. In the country’s history there had never been one. But since the 2003 invasion, there have been 1,892.
And what about Afghanistan? Just last year alone, insurgents killed 2,643 civilians last year—the highest number since U.N. records began.
How about Pakistan? In the 14 years prior to 9/11 there was one suicide attack on Pakistani soil. In the 14 years since, there have been 486 suicide attacks.
The same is true in the past 14 years in Somalia (88), Yemen (85), Libya (29), Nigeria (91), and Syria (165).”
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And where are the 1.5million Christians that were living in their native country of Iraq before 2003? That's a question for Conservatives.
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But if we're going to keep on with that part of the world as we've done in the last few years and take the oil, let's admit it up front. Let's know why we're spending our(We The People) treasure, our reputation, and our blood and who's benefiting from it.
Part of that needs to be the cost in treasure, reputation, and blood of the last many years, but also to accept that after all is said and done--It is our country, our treasure, and our blood. Not that of our 'leaders'.
I for one, am extremely tired of being manipulated and lied to. Information such as that in the article may be disturbing in either it's revelations or in the way it's presented, but we need to see it, process it, and analyze it with reality and as many facts as we can discover for ourselves--not just the continual line of BS we're so used to playing around in.
Yes! I wish we could move a little in the direction of a small standing army and armed citizens standing ready to defend the country if it should ever be needed.
I'm so much more likely to die of a heart attack, a bike accident, or pancreatic cancer that political extremism is not even on my radar.
Active and Reserve units deployed, Our dead, their dead, collateral dead and while we're at it. what is the definition of collateral and then what phases. Since the invasion in 2003 and then how is the percentage of ...what?...divided between administrations in which ever terms it refers to.
My theory is newspapers and tv time and related advertisng sold. Or perhaps the income of the author? Not the poster....the originator(s) of the information. Is it, like million man march, 100,000 cops in the street, or balanced budget with a surplus pure BS or is it hard fact. Trouble is the whole comment is subjective. What figures are provided have no source....following the source URL one is bumped to somebody named Ben Swann who is quoting US Government Figures where most of the above comes from but....once again...no cites no sources. It could be be the daily sow belly futures for all we know..
While I would like to use such information I stop at using anything that is not sourced. The trail ran cold four or five layers with only something called the Global Terrorism Index likewise not sourced other than stating 'Government Figures.' Associates were a plethora of World Peace this and that llikewise dead ends. Which left curiously enough New York Times, Washington Post. Huffington and The Guardian.
On the other hand they claimed to be big time objectivists. All those figures and not one source? Shades of Ayn Rands immigration forgery. Sounds good. You want it to be good but...Where's the beef?
Disappointing to say the least. Unusable to be perfectly honest.
I will stand corrected when I hear moooooo instead of "Parts is parts!"
when I bring up a new view of a post. . what's going on? -- j
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should have focused our effort more carefully when using military
force -- for example, we could have continued on to remove
SoDamInsane from Baghdad after helping the Kuwaitis, etc.
or, we could have let Kuwait burn and relied on new tech
in the Dakotas earlier than we did. . Rand had Ellis Wyatt
claiming shale oil in the fifties. . we could have, too. -- j
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We (the West) didn't create the monster, we just ignorantly cut several of the chains binding it.
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