"God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but after the situation became unbearable—and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon—I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed—when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way: to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women."
— Osama bin Laden, 2004
https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
Keep in mind these counts are ONLY for iraq as far as i can tell.
US coalition Civilian casualties
Unknown actors
Anti-government/Occupation forces
These are civilian deaths alone. In Iraq alone. At minimum 15,000 of which were killed by the US and coalition forces. I'm working on finding all the casualties but keep in mind this is all going back to the genocide taking place in palestine. From Osama to Saddam, all of it, because of western favoritism of the Israeli's both in turning a blind eye to the genocide and helping with it.
So collateral damage, worth it right? Or maybe it's just counter productive and sparks other wars. Perhaps the answer is not to be a dick, perhaps we should consider working together with the world instead of trying to bend it to our will, to our culture, to our way of thinking.
Or perhaps you shouldn't listen to every politician that says we're in danger. Perhaps we should stay the fuck out of other peoples business. And perhaps it's time to admit that the formation of Israel was a mistake.
