A Decade of War in Iraq: The Images that Moved Them

[emoney]

Smfh. Coporations control our foreign policies and they are becoming bolder with it this past decade. I dont know what to say. The cronies made millions and billions of dollars from these wars andthe citizens of this military complex country did nothing about.

Many citizens benefit by the decision making in foreign policy by these corporations and politicians.

You do know those same corporations who control foreign policy have employees and stock holders right?

Take a company like Raytheon, a defense contractor that employ tens of thousands of people. THIS IS JUST ONE OF HUNDREDS OF COMPANIES THAT FUEL the American military industrial complex.

I say this to say that a significant percentage of the American population directly or indirectly support the wars their government engages in overseas. This fact is a hard pill to swallow..... for both sides

 

[Techniec]

what was your mentality and outlook before?

were you a conservative before the iraq war? (like cenk from the young turks)

i was a 19 yr old first yr poly scy student at the time, and i never thought that war was gonna happen. it was way too brazen, wayyyy too bullshiit. i knew logically at that age that there were no wmds, i knew that israel took out the reactor in 1981, i knew that by the time the iran-iraq war and gulf war was done, saddam barely had anything left. and whatever he had left 10 yrs of sanctions and no fly zones completely eradicated

even down to the final weeks they were destroying saddams scuds and shiit i knew that man had nothing. it was too brazen of a rape i never ever thought they could get away with that, and i thought if my 19 yr old azz knew this, surely the worlds politicians and academia and media knew this too. i didnt think i was anything special

i came from a generation where, you know...wars were always all about corporations and profits, but at least some creativity went into the justifications, it was also rooted in some form of reality

i will never forget, i was rolling a blunt, chillin in my dorm, and the news came through..glued to the tv, just utter fukn shock

from then on:

- i gave the to every goofy professor trying to spit that multilateralism bullshyt at me, the world is for the wolves,
- to all the caac supremacists and judeofascists for life
- i looked at my self as a member of the 1% who actually have some semblance of whats happening in the world. and i understood quite clearly the VAST majority of people are fukn sheep and stupid as fukk and there is no shame in stating that
- proven conclusion americans are fkn retards
- 9/11 was definitely a game changer. i remember when it happened my senior high school history teacher told us, this was gonna be our generations main event, and i knew some fishy shyt was happening once that "war on terror" discourse started, israels war against palestinians got wrapped up into this narrative, but the iraq war drove the point home
- the shia supremacist iranian safavids
- no respect for the mainstream politicians, media, academics who jumped on that war bandwagon (for my canadian heads, ignatieff, ernie els, harper etc)
- jean chretien
- the people of Fallujah and Al Anbar, Salahudin provinces
- the west most definitely is involved in black ops, false flag operations (the 2 brits who got caught in basra, the wave of mysterious bombings that preceded the sunni/shia blood bath that let the heat off the insurgency)
- democracy is a sham perpetuated by the west to further instability in post conflict societies

thats all i got for now

 

[the mechanic]

Many citizens benefit by the decision making in foreign policy by these corporations and politicians.

You do know those same corporations who control foreign policy have employees and stock holders right?

Take a company like Raytheon, a defense contractor that employ tens of thousands of people. THIS IS JUST ONE OF HUNDREDS OF COMPANIES THAT FUEL the American military industrial complex.

I say this to say that a significant percentage of the American population directly or indirectly support the wars their government engages in overseas. This fact is a hard pill to swallow..... for both sides

This is fallacious..just do the math..The 1 trillion spent on that war will be coming out of taxpayers pockets not to mention opportunity cost

most people lost..a few gained bigtime

those few who gained bought airtime on TV and convinced you that you got something out of it too
which was a lie...

 

[emoney]

This is fallacious..just do the math..The 1 trillion spent on that war will be coming out of taxpayers pockets not to mention opportunity cost

most people lost..a few gained bigtime

those few who gained bought airtime on TV and convinced you that you got something out of it too
which was a lie...

do what math?

nobody convinced me of anything

I said many benefited and many did

 

[The War Report]

do what math?

nobody convinced me of anything

I said many benefited and many did

The defense contractors.

 

[Blackking]

the yellow cake right

i wonder if Powell indeed ruined his legacy with that.

no. legend in history books, regardless of all that.

what could any coli iraq vets tells us about these battles? TUH, smokeurob.

That come to find out my boys are cleaning up with the VA claims.. And I'm late as sh1t. if you went to certain environments, it's easy.. I'm going to file, it's not too late so that's cash for the rest of my life.

the day that changed my mentality and outlook on politics forever

word.

 

[AVXL]

The pictures in this collection are heartbreaking brehs...but are worthwhile to see & read the commentary from the photographers. I legit at the image of the mother & her dead son...she thought he was alive b/c she thought she saw him blink