Officials: US Kills 500,000 in Iraq
November 2, 2014
Actually, the AP headline reads: “Officials: Islamic State group kills 50 in Iraq.” Americans are outraged about the 50 but don’t seem to care about the 500,000. It seems to be okay when Americans bomb, maim, and kill, but not when others do it.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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