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Showing Original Post only (View all)A million people killed. Damn. How do you live with it? [View all]
A million killed in the most recent war in Iraq.
500,000 kids under 5 died as a result of Clinton's embargoes in Iraq.
Probably another 100,000 in Bush Sr.'s war there...
I knew the numbers already, but it is the kind of thing that leaves your mind for a while but when it comes back, it overwhelms you and eats away at you...
How do you live with it, as Americans (I am one too although I will never again live there). How does it not grow to be such a monstrous blot on your minds that you can no longer handle the hypocrisy of pointing the fingers at nations, like Japan, whose sins were done over 70 years ago, probably before your parents were even born? Or Israel who takes the lives of far, far fewer despite facing a threat that is far, far greater?
It is staggering, monstrous, a genocide... I wish it were not treated as "just another thing".
I guess I am just venting here, but I don't ever want to get to the point where it doesn't stagger me. I don't want to forget or let my children forget.