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Why 1.3 million dead are not worth mentioning

01 April 2015

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"Its one of the essential tenets of the new age of humanitarian war that war is not as bad as it used to be, or at least that its not so bad that the costs outweigh the gains....

Once of the ways in which these governments have attempted to ensure popular acceptance is by ignoring or downplaying any evidence that contradicts this new mythology of war. Last month a joint report Body Count: Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the War on Terror produced by the medical-political peace organization Physicians for Social Responsibility, Physicians for Global Survival, and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War concluded that 1.3 million people have died as a direct or indirect of wars fought in three main theatres of war in Iraq (1 million), Afghanistan (220,000) and Pakistan (80,000)."

See the full text: Why 1.3 million dead are not worth mentioning (Matt Carr's Infernal Machine - Notes From the Margins&, link)

And see: Physicians for Global Survival, and International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War report: Body Count (pdf)

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