• Noam Chomsky once wrote that the “sign of a truly totalitarian culture is that important truths simply lack cognitive meaning and are interpretable only at the level of ‘Fuck You,’ so they can then elicit a perfectly predictable torrent of abuse in response.”
• “WE DON’T do body counts,” Gen. Tommy Franks once famously answered a reporter’s question about civilian casualties.
• an organization called Iraq Body Count (IBC) has tallied about 110,000 deaths, based on media accounts and health ministry records. IBC admits that its total is surely too low since occupying armies and sectarian civil wars are not known for meticulous bookkeeping, but it disputes the higher figures 
• According to the United Nations Children Fund, 500,000 Iraqi children died in the 1990s due to United Nations sanctions (rammed through by the U.S.) that barred medicines and other basic necessities from entering the country.
• In 2000, the UN humanitarian aid coordinator resigned to protest the sanctions, two years after his predecessor had done the same. Both of these life-long diplomats later used the word “genocide” to describe the American policy.

We are responsible for these deaths, as those who benefit from America’s military and “diplomatic” prowess. The current situation in Gaza has many parallels to what we’ve done in Iraq. 

What can we tell our grandchildren we did to stop our abusive nation?

Let’s tell them we learned from Iraq and DID NOT ALLOW our leaders to take us to war with Iran.