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Title: 90% of All Deaths In War Are CIVILIANS And 80% of wars are started by the US
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URL Source: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/90-deaths-war-civilians.html
Published: May 18, 2014
Author: Washington'sBlog
Post Date: 2014-05-18 17:49:10 by christine
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Views: 170
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And the U.S. Launched 201 Out of the 248 Armed Conflicts Since the End of WWII The June 2014 issue of the American Journal of Public Health notes (free PDF here; hat tip David Swanson): Around 90% of all deaths in war are civilians: “The proportion of civilian deaths and the methods for classifying deaths as civilian are debated, but civilian war deaths constitute 85% to 90% of casualties caused by war, with about 10 civilians dying for every combatant killed in battle.” Swanson notes: “A top defense of war is that it must be used to prevent something worse, called genocide. Not only does militarism generate genocide rather than preventing it, but the distinction between war and genocide is a very fine one at best.” The U.S. launched 201 out of the 248 armed conflicts since the end of WWII: “Since the end of World War II, there have been 248 armed conflicts in 153 locations around the world. The United States launched 201 overseas military operations between the end of World War II and 2001, and since then, others, including Afghanistan and Iraq ….” U.S. military spending dwarfs all other countries: “The United States is responsible for 41% of the world’s total military spending. The next largest in spending are China, accounting for 8.2%; Russia, 4.1%; and the United Kingdom and France, both 3.6%. . . . If all military . . . costs are included, annual [US] spending amounts to $1 trillion . . . . According to the DOD fiscal year 2012 base structure report, ‘The DOD manages global property of more than 555,000 facilities at more than 5,000 sites, covering more than 28 million acres.’ The United States maintains 700 to 1000 military bases or sites in more than 100 countries. . . .” Here it is in visual form:
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#2. To: christine, Lod, X-15, noone222 (#0)
Anyone care to list the wars prevented by this country??? In particular, WWIII has been held in abeyance since 1945. It is coming, we have only to look at present affairs in Asia. There were but twenty years of "peace" between WWI and WWII. Since WWII we have had seventy years of "peace". The killing never stops, it is but the magnitude of killing that changes. WWIII is yet to come, and come it will.
I can't think of one, but there's a snappy little tune that'll make the soldiers step lively on the way to their deaths: Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
This time, military deaths will be insignificant. Civilians will die by the hundreds of millions, that is hundreds of millions. In my time, long ago, we were told, we would kill 300,000 in three minutes. That is 300,000 civilians. Consider what is available now. The soldiers will be hiding in underground bunkers, where will you and I be????
Staring into a new little sun bursting right above our heads. ZAAAPPPPP!!!
After our first exposure of plans of mass killing of civilians, there was no conversation, nothing, just dead silence. The subject was never discussed. The people back home voted for more war. We resist or refuse??? Prison or shot. The voters resisted nothing, they voted for more war.
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#3. To: Cynicom (#2)
#5. To: X-15 (#3)
I can't think of one, but there's a snappy little tune that'll make the soldiers step lively on the way to their deaths:
#7. To: Cynicom (#5)
The soldiers will be hiding in underground bunkers, where will you and I be????
#9. To: X-15 (#7)
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