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Posted By engineer 5 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsAmericans are being asked to stop whatever they are doing at 3 p.m. local time Monday to share a minute on Memorial Day and honor those who have died in the cause of freedom.
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That is a fine idea as far as it goes, but a much BETTER one would be to reflect on way MORE than just "our" OWN relatively quite small number of victims in the pursuit of that cause. It would be more broadly and generally appropriate to reflect also on a great many OTHER people who have been "corollary casualties" as well.
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In the case of "our" most recent little OIL (misad)venture in Iraq, there have by now been SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF A MILLION "excess deaths" among Iraqis. (That figure had stood at 655,000 back in 2006 at the time of the Lancet study, and THAT was followed by 2007 --- the bloodiest year of the war --- followed by the whole so-called "surge".) In addition, "our" actions and "policies" have produced about 4.5 million REFUGEES (external and internal) as well. It is rather exasperating to witness an essentially propagandistic memorialization of just "our OWN" dead in the shadow of all that much LARGER obscenity. All of THOSE people should be "memorialized" PROPORTIONATELY.
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