OK, consider thoughts provoked.
First slide:
The Iraq body count (not the BS Lancet study) reports 92,000-100,500 civilian deaths in Iraq since the war started. This counts those killed by suicide bombs, direct attacks, paramilitary, and military.
Along with other human rights organizations, The Documental Centre for Human Rights in Iraq compiled documentation on over 600,000 civilian executions in Iraq. Human Rights Watch reported that in one operation alone, the Anfal, Saddam killed 100,000 Kurdish Iraqis. Another 500,000 are estimated to have died in Saddam’s needless war with Iran. Coldly taken as a daily average for the 24 years of Saddam’s reign, these numbers give us a horrifying picture of between 70 and 125 civilian deaths per day for every one of Saddam’s 8,000-odd days in power.
So slide 1 is anti-American BS.
Second slide:
POW deaths in Japanese captivity totaled 467,000. Detailed by country:
China 400,000
Netherlands-Military 8,500
U.K. 12,430; U.K. Colonies 11,060
Canada 270
Philippines 27,260
Australia 7,410
United States 12,643
The civilian victims of Japanese war crimes totaled 5,469,000. Detailed by country: China 3,695,000;
Indochina 457,000;
Korea 378,000;
Indonesia 375,000;
Malaya 346,000
Philippines 119,000
Burma 60,000
Pacific Islands 57,000
Japanese civilian deaths totaled 570,000.
And, if I can point this out to anyone stupid enough not to understand, the Japanese attacked the US. The US responded. When you break into someone’s house carrying a knife, you can’t whine and call “unfair – disproportionate response” when they come downstairs with a shotgun. So the modern idea that the US should presumably have only killed as many Japanese as the Japanese killed Americans is also anti-American BS.
It’s frankly depressing to see so many in the West swallow and parrot back this kind of nonsense.











