The "war on terror" - and by terrorists - has directly killed a minimum of 62,006 people, created 4.5 million refugees and cost the US more than the sum needed to pay off the debts of every poor nation on earth.
If estimates of other, unquantified, deaths - of insurgents, the Iraq military during the 2003 invasion, those not recorded individually by Western media, and those dying from wounds - are included, then the toll could reach as high as 180,000.
It makes the argument to keep the killing going in Iraq in the hopes that it will eventually bring peace just seem completely insane. I know that the killing in Iraq will not immediately stop when America leaves but it will start the process of the Iraqis working out a system of government of their own just that much sooner.
The truly horrible part is that the first victims of our leaving would be any and all of the Iraqis that worked with American forces. I think that many of them will be killed and the others will flee for their lives.
What an unbelievable mess!
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