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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.
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_reserves_in_Iraq
Blowback is done by campist cretins, fair warning.
Ah yes, wherein I said "They got the Iraq War wrong".
Oh, no, wait, I noted they're campist cretins, and you know this because we literally had this discussion before. Nice attempt at playing dumb, though.
That's a pretty bizarre extrapolation from me recognizing that they're campist cretins.
Second-campist. Do you not know what 'campist' means?
Yes. How hilarious it is that I think their own words are evidence of their positions. Ha ha.
So is Glenn fucking Greenwald, that doesn't make him not a cretin.
Oh, right, apologism for atrocities is only bad when it's US atrocities.
Have they considered not discrediting themselves by being genocide apologists for non-US atrocities, or is that too much ask?
I apologize, in the future, I'll be sure to paper over and cover up genocide apologism if the apologist sometimes agrees with me.
Ah yes, when performative leftists sudden become "fiscal conservatives" once the issue of resisting genocide comes up.
Well, the issue of resisting Russian or Chinese genocide, at least.
THEN the dollar value of lives becomes extremely important to campist cretins, for some reason.
"The US created/fueled/escalated the Ukrainian War!"
Fucking bootlicker.
"I don't think America should bankroll [resistance to genocide] in perpetuity"
What, are you illiterate or something? Can you not read?
jk, I know this is all in bad faith, but thanks for proving it.
"Resistance to genocide is fueling the conflict!"
Yeah, no, genocide apologia isn't allowed here, and neither are bad faith takes defending genocide.
Until Ukraine, apparently. But sure, they managed to critique a conflict 50 years ago while running defense for an imperialist genocide happening today, totally proves they're anti-imperialist. I bet you think supporters of the Iraq War who critique Vietnam are anti-imperialist Americans.
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.