"The true number of military personnel injured over the course of our nine-year-long fiasco in Iraq is in the hundreds of thousands — maybe even more than half a million.

...

We don’t have anything close to an exact number, however, because nobody’s been keeping track."

https://presswatchers.org/2023/03/how-many-u-s-soldiers-were-wounded-in-iraq-no-one-knows-or-seems-to-care/

#Iraq #IraqWar #IraqInvasion #USVeterans #WoundedVeterans

True #Warrior mentality of #USArmy. Never leave a man behind, except when it's too scary to go back. #IraqInvasion

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/abandoned-in-iraq-inside-two-soldiers-harrowing-escape-249734/

It’s been two decades since a US-led coalition invaded Iraq. Five young people born around the time of the invasion speak to VICE World News about growing up in the shadow of war.
https://www.vice.com/en/feature/3akzqb/iraq-war-20-years
#IraqiWar #iraq #TheMiddleEast #iraqinvasion #usa #worldconflict #worldnews

当時、「キャンセル」っていう言葉はなかったけどね。

近年、誹謗・中傷、性被害否定・否認、性差別・トランス差別や人種差別などの言動が許容されないことにより何らかの重大なペナルティを受けた人に寄り添って「キャンセルカルチャーだ」と喚いてるいい年齢の方々はこれは都合よく忘れてるんだろう

RT @StefSimanowitz@twitter.com

67/. #OTD 20 years ago, the band Dixie Chicks were ‘cancelled’ after criticising the planned #IraqInvasion

George Michael released Shoot the Dog depicting Blair as Bush’s lapdog & asking: “Tony dancing with Dubya, don't you wanna know why?”
#IraqWar #Iraq
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1623962762048053248

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1635546400581726209

このスレッド、本当にすごい。今判明している事実（当時も盛んに言われていたこと）の光のもとで、当時の報道記事やネットミームでrush to the warを再現。※報道機関サイトのデザインが変わっているから完全ではなく、心構えがないと見る側にとって「記憶の改変」を引き起こすかもしれない点は要注意

RT @StefSimanowitz@twitter.com

65/. “Great falsehoods were perpetrated & yet the individuals who perpetrated these things are still running around much as before being taken seriously…These people should hide their heads in shame”

20 years after the #IraqInvasion, there has been zero accountability
#IraqWar

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1634161835740917761

RT @StefSimanowitz@twitter.com

WWI - 10% of all casualties were civilians

WWII - number of civilian deaths rose to 50%

Vietnam War - 70% of all casualties were civilians

Iraq War - civilians accounted for up to 90% of all deaths

Sunday marks 20 years since the #IraqInvasion #IraqWar
https://twitter.com/morphonios/status/1506791214426771461/video/1 https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1620124404637114368

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1635547690573471744

John Howard’s 2003 march to war with Iraq appears to have taught our current parliament little | #Australia news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/20/john-howards-2003-march-to-war-with-iraq-appears-to-have-taught-our-current-parliament-little

"Steele-John has repeatedly called for a “re-evaluation” of Australia’s close security relationship with the US. On Monday, he said the Greens stood united in “opposition to ever again, being led into an illegal, immoral and unjust war at the reckless hands of the United States of America”."

#Iraq #IraqInvasion

It was #karlrove
> “That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors… and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
https://tomdispatch.com/rebecca-gordon-confronting-alternative-facts/
But I still can't fine the #IraqInvasion-era discussion..

I'm looking around #TomDispatch for #TomEngelhardt's on #Rumsfeld's admission that reality wasn't an issue in the #IraqInvasion. Maybe it was #Petraeus that was confident they could create the desired #FactsOnTheGround . Either #HannahArendt or #SimoneWeil writes of the totalitarian's constant stream of facts and how contradictions don't matter just keep giving followers something to get excited about.
https://tomdispatch.com/whose-future-is-this-anyway/
#FictionBasedReality
#BetweenPastAndFuture #Arendt