AFTER 15 YEARS OF WAR IN IRAQ: US has spent $32 million per hour on War-on-Terror since 2001.

The Illegal Iraq War

Is Still Laughing

At Our Face!

U.S. Has Spent $32 Million

Per Hour on War-on-Terror

Since 2001

(M. Javed Naseem)

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Summary

o:- Direct war death toll in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan

since 2001: 370,000 (August 2016).

o:- Over 370,000 people have died due to direct war

violence, and at least 800,000 more indirectly.

o:- 200,000 civilians have been killed as a result of the

fighting at the hands of all parties to the conflict.

o:- 10.1 million — the number of war refugees

and displaced persons.

o:- The US federal price tag for the post-9/11 wars is

about $5.6 trillion dollars.

o:- The US military is conducting counter-terror

activities in 76 countries.

o:- The wars have been accompanied by violations of

human rights and civil liberties, in the US and abroad.

(Courtesy: http://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/)

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The evil Zionist empire has tightened its grip on world affairs with the help of bombs and guns. It is manipulating other countries’ (especially oil-rich Middle East) resources and plundering their wealth, destroying, at the same time, centuries old civilization, historic monuments and modern infrastructure, not to mention millions of people killed in the process. The ruthless Triangle of Evil (US, UK & Israel) has been killing innocent civilians, including children and women, like psychopaths with no remorse. They want control – total control – of the entire world and its resources.

The Evil Empire also owns and controls the mainstream media, therefore, common people don’t get the authentic information or facts about any situation these war-mongers are involved in. The corrupt media is serving the Evil Empire as a paid maid. So, it is difficult to get the truth out. But it is still possible and there are some brave people who are doing this dangerous and risky work just to wake people up. This is a great noble mission under the given circumstances when even criticizing the aggressor or the killer has become a crime.

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You are being fooled by lies & deception!

Speak out and demand the truth!

Fight for your rights, liberty & justice!

Don’t surrender your rights and lawful

privileges in the name of ‘fake’ security!

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The wheel of Iraq war was set in motion in 2003 by George Bush, in the name of War on Terror on a false and fabricated pretext that Iraq’s President Saddam Hussain possessed the WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). The co-culprit, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, supplied the desired ‘proof’ and the war machine of the Zionist West was given the green light to attack Iraq, by the Zionist mafia. The U.N. declared it an illegal war and did not endorse it, but later on embraced it.

Till today, millions of people have been killed, one way or the other, by this illegal campaign but still there’s no end in sight – 15 years and counting! The Triangle of Evil has been exporting weapons and ammunition, plus other equipment, making trillions of dollars in profits. Anything else does not matter. War is the most profitable business for them and they export it under the label of ‘freedom and democracy’. They exported this freedom and democracy to Vietnam, Nicaragua, Philippines, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, etc., etc. – the list goes on and on! One can easily see that there is a pattern there and the same people (or countries) are the beneficiaries!

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The U.S. taxpayers pay the tab;

Children of the patriots are sacrificed;

Millions of civilians are butchered;

Death & Destruction is promoted;

But a few psychopaths get richer,

And gain control of the world!

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The modern history tells us that once America gets in, it won’t get out till that country is destroyed or its government is subdued. ‘Regime change’ is the new fashionable term being used for invasions and illegal attacks. The morons in power have declared openly: ‘If you are not with us, you are against us’. What a slogan! What a mentality! What a logic! So, the weaker, the coward and the opportunists are all jumping on the bandwagon and offering cooperation to protect their own asses and their illegitimate regimes. War has become the most profitable business for the Defense Industrial Complex of the Zionist West’s New World Order.

With more than 900 bases all over the world, the Evil Empire is not exporting freedom and democracy. It’s consolidating its hegemony of the world. During the Sept. 12, 2011, Republican presidential debate in Tampa, Rep. Ron Paul, (R-Texas) – a staunch advocate of limited government and a more modest military footprint – offered a surprising statistic about the reach of the U.S. armed forces. He said:

"We're under great threat, because we occupy so many countries," Paul said. "We're in 130 countries. We have 900 bases around the world. We're going broke. The purpose of al-Qaida was to attack us, invite us over there, where they can target us. And they have been doing it. They have more attacks against us and the American interests per month than occurred in all the years before 9/11, but we're there occupying their land. And if we think that we can do that and not have retaliation, we're kidding ourselves. We have to be honest with ourselves. What would we do if another country, say, China, did to us what we do to all those countries over there?"

Stephanie Savell is co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. An anthropologist, she has conducted research on security and civic engagement in the U.S. and in Brazil. She co-authored The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life.

 The Costs of War Project is a team of 35 scholars, legal experts, human rights practitioners, and physicians, which began its work in 2011. They use research and a public website to facilitate debate about the costs of the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the related violence in Pakistan and Syria. Their aim is to foster democratic discussion of these wars by providing the fullest possible account of their human, economic, and political costs, and to foster better informed public policies.

15 Years After Invasion,

What Are the Costs?

By: Stephanie Savell,

(via OtherWords.org)

U.S. Has Spent $32 Million Per Hour on War Since 2001

This March marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

In 2003, President George W. Bush and his advisers based their case for war on the idea that Saddam Hussein, then dictator of Iraq, possessed weapons of mass destruction — weapons that have never been found. Nevertheless, all these years later, the global “War on Terror” continues — in Iraq and in many other countries.

It’s a good time to reflect on what this war — the longest in U.S. history — has cost Americans and others around the world.

First, the economic costs: According to estimates by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the war on terror has cost Americans a staggering $5.6 trillion since 2001, when the U.S. invaded Afghanistan.

$5.6 trillion! This figure includes not just the Pentagon’s war fund, but also future obligations such as social services for an ever-growing number of post-9/11 veterans.

It’s hard for most of us to even begin to grasp such an enormous number.

It means Americans spend $32 million per hour, according to a counter by the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.

Put another way: Since 2001, every American taxpayer has spent almost $24,000 on these wars — equal to the average down payment on a house, a new Honda Accord, or a year at a public university.

As stupefying as those numbers are, the budgetary costs pale in comparison with the human toll.

As of 2015, when the Costs of War project made its latest tallies, up to 165,000 Iraqi civilians had died as a direct consequence of U.S. war, plus around 8,000 U.S. soldiers and military contractors in Iraq.

Those numbers have only continued to rise. Up to 6,000 civilians were killed by U.S.-led strikes in Iraq and Syria in 2017 –– more civilians than in any previous year, according to the watchdog group AirWars.

In addition to those direct deaths, at least four times as many people in Iraq have died from the side effects of war, such as malnutrition, environmental degradation, and deteriorated infrastructure. Since the 2003 invasion, for instance, Iraqi health care has plummeted — with hospitals and clinics bombed, supplies of medicine and electricity jeopardized, and thousands of physicians and healthcare workers fleeing the country.

Meanwhile, the war continues to spread, no longer limited to Afghanistan, Iraq, or Syria, as many Americans think. Indeed, the U.S. military is escalating a shadowy network of anti-terror operations all across the world — in at least 76 nations, or 40 percent of countries on the planet.

Last October, news about four U.S. Army Green Berets being killed by an Islamic State affiliate in the West African nation of Niger gave Americans a glimpse of just how broad this network is. And along with it comes all the devastating consequences of militarism for the people of these countries.

We must ask: Are these astounding costs worth it? Is the U.S. accomplishing anything close to its goal of diminishing the global terrorist threat?

The answer is, resoundingly, no. U.S. activity in Iraq and the Middle East has only spurred greater political upheaval and unrest. The U.S.-led coalition is seen not as a liberating force, but as an aggressor. This has fomented insurgent recruitment, and there are now more terrorist groups in the Middle East than ever before.

Until a broad swath of the American public gets engaged to call for an end to the War on Terror, these mushrooming costs — economic, human, social, and political — will just continue to grow.

(Courtesy: www.OtherWords.org, Cartoon by Khalil Bendib)

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