Breaking the Silence: Truth and Lies in the War on Terror (2003)
"US Caused More Deaths in Iraq Than
Saddam," Agence France Presse, June 25, 2005
"Bush: God told me to invade Iraq,"
independent.co.uk, October 7, 2005
Zbigniew Brzezinski, "Terrorized by 'War on
Terror'," Washington Post, March 25, 2007
James A. Lucas, "Deaths In
Other Nations Since WW II Due To US Interventions," countercurrents.org, April 24, 2007
[This investigation comes to the conclusion that the war has, directly or indirectly,
killed around 1 million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan,
i.e. a total of around 1.3 million. Not included in this figure are further war zones
such as Yemen. The figure is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the
public, experts and decision makers are aware of and propagated by the media and major
NGOs. And this is only a conservative estimate. The total number of deaths in the
three countries named above could also be in excess of 2 million, whereas a figure
below 1 million is extremely unlikely.--"Body Count,"
Physicians for Social Responsibility, March 2015]
[Last month, the Washington DC-based Physicians for Social Responsibility (PRS) released
a landmark study concluding that the death toll from 10 years of the "War on Terror"
since the 9/11 attacks is at least 1.3 million, and could be as high as 2 million.--Nafeez Ahmed, "Western wars have killed four million Muslims
since 1990," middleeasteye.net, April 8, 2015]
VIDEO: Ben Swann, "Ted Cruz
said the Middle East was better off with Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi in
power," CBS46, December 15, 2015
[In Bengal at least 5 million died in 1943 alone, 5.5 million in 1876-78, 5 million in
1896-97--Andre Vltchek, "How the
West Creates Terrorism," counterpunch.org, January 22, 2016]
Rebecca Gordon, "Bush and Cheney
Belong in Jail: America Must Answer for Its Illegal War on Terror,"
alternet.org, June 9, 2016
Doug Bandow, "Declaring War on 'Islamist Extremism' Is Nonsense,"
nationalinterest.org, June 20, 2016
[It would be difficult to find a section that is by definition more hypocritical as many
would certainly consider Washington the leading practitioner of state sponsored terror
with its claimed authority to go after militant targets anywhere at any time.--Philip
Giraldi, "Some
Perspectives on the War on Terror," unz.com, December 20, 2016]
John W. Dower, "An
American Century of Carnage," commondreams.org, March 28, 2017
John W. Whitehead, "America's
Reign of Terror," antiwar.com, May 23, 2017
Thomas S Harrington, "Muslims
are Very Strange People," counterpunch.org, June 7, 2017
[Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United
States military has killed some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments,
interfered in at least 82 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign
leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries.--David Swanson, "List of U.S. Wars and Hostile Actions,"
davidswanson.org, September 16, 2017]
Tom Engelhardt, "76 Countries Are Now Involved in Washington's
War on Terror," tomdispatch.com, January 4, 2018
[IT WAS ON September 16, 2001, five days after the 9/11 attacks, that President George
W. Bush declared his now-infamous "war on terrorism." Other governments around the world
followed suit - but few matched the speed, intensity, and sheer cynicism with which the
autocrats in Beijing aligned themselves with the Bush administration.--Mehdi Hasan, "One
Million Muslim Uighurs Have Been Detained by China, the U.N. Says. Where's the Global
Outrage?," theintercept.com, August 13, 2018]
[deaths during the post-2001 U.S. wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan and Yemen
is likely to reach 3.1 million or more - around 200 times the number of U.S.
dead.--David Vine, "Reckoning with the costs of war: It's time to take
responsibility," thehill.com, November 13, 2019]