Friday, February 22, 2019

Every Democratic Party Politician Supports the Global War OF Terror

As the title states, every democratic party politician fully supports the Global War OF Terror (same with every politician in the republican party).  That includes the new "Antiwar/Peace" congressional unrepresentative from Hawaii, Tulsi Gabbard, as well as Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the three favorites of the leftier portion of the democratic party, i.e., the self described progressives.

It's disheartening listening to long time supposedly antiwar citizens get on board the fake peace train of Gabbard's and completely disregard the fake Global War OF Terror, like it doesn't exist as long as she opposes regime changes for "humanitarian" reasons.  But, that's how it works, remember the antiwar protests under Bush turning to full throated support for all U.S .imperialism under Obama?  That turned into the democratic party becoming even more bloodthirsty than the republicans.

Hell, Trump said he was against regime changes too.  Does anyone think Tulsi Gabbard could stand up to the deep state any better than Trump has, even if she is telling the truth?  She's already started her own Waffle House franchise and she's just started her weird ass campaign for president.

The U.S., according to this article, is waging the war OF terror in 80 countries at this point.  It's been reported that the U.S. has some kind of military related personnel in up to 175 countries.

"When I first set out to map all the places in the world where the United States is still fighting terrorism so many years later, I didn’t think it would be that hard to do. This was before the 2017 incident in Niger in which four American soldiers were killed on a counterterror mission and Americans were given an inkling of how far-reaching the war on terrorism might really be. I imagined a map that would highlight Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Syria — the places many Americans automatically think of in association with the war on terror — as well as perhaps a dozen less-noticed countries like the Philippines and Somalia. I had no idea that I was embarking on a research odyssey that would, in its second annual update, map U.S. counterterror missions in 80 countries in 2017 and 2018, or 40% of the nations on this planet (a map first featured in Smithsonian magazine).

As co-director of the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, I’m all too aware of the costs that accompany such a sprawling overseas presence. Our project’s research shows that, since 2001, the U.S. war on terror has resulted in the loss — conservatively estimated — of almost half a million lives in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan alone. By the end of 2019, we also estimate that Washington’s global war will cost American taxpayers no less than $5.9 trillion already spent and in commitments to caring for veterans of the war throughout their lifetimes."

https://www.mintpressnews.com/now-in-80-countries-the-american-war-on-terror-couldnt-be-more-global/255325/

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