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I care more about the million Iraqis we murdered or at least enabled the death of in a global temper tantrum as we set the stage for a headlong descent into fascism.
People don't think much about Afghanistan already, yet that's the country that got invaded first after 9/11
To be fair, Afghanistan was actually involved in the 9/11 plot, unlike Iraq.
Yes, all 45 000 civilians killed by the US military were involved...
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/costs/human/civilians
Funny, because it turned out to be Saudis. And Bin Laden himself was bunkered in Pakistan.
It simply killed many fewer people with an at least half-assed justification, instead of an outright lie to justify a neocrusade.
Turns out it was also a lie in Afghanistan and the people who financed ObL must be laughing their ass off about it!