Thank you for your service!

‘Why are you thanking me? I didn’t do anything. I didn’t help anyone. I just perpetuated a system of senseless violence.’ — This Marine vet is releasing real war footage to show Americans the reality of war in Afghanistan

https://twitter.com/1maria_ml/status/1192550566809022465
Veteran Jon Turner details the horrors he and his fellow US Marines committed in Iraq.
KILL ANYTHING THAT MOVES

“While the US suffered more than 58,000 dead in the war, an estimated two million Vietnamese civilians were killed, another 5.3 million injured and about 11 million, by US government figures, became refugees in their own country.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-23427726
George W Bush & Tony Blair killed a million people in Iraq, and rising, spawned ISIS, cascaded it across the world.
No international law!
No United Nations Security Council!
Unilateral use of Western power - @georgegalloway
'Just a reminder of what the first few months of the US war on Iraq was like, when the vast majority Iraqis were cooperating with the occupation and very few were attacking US forces.

You'll understand why they started.' rt @MikePrysner
https://twitter.com/ml_1maria/status/1107999860433866752?s=19
Our enemies are not in Iran. They are in corporate boardrooms, on Wall St & in Washington

We have absolutely nothing in common with the pampered rich elites who want this war, & everything in common with the people it will kill in Iraq & Iran @MikePrysner
@MikePrysner Speech: No War on Iran! Troops Out of Iraq!

@EmpireFiles
Fallujah was one of the worst atrocities of the 21st century.
The Iraq war itself was the worst crime of the 21st century.
Chomsky
"I tortured and raped in Iraq"

Sickening. And most Americans just don’t give a fuck about it, do they?

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