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rwsanders

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11. It has only been classed as such because everyone on the right throws it around so much so that
Sat Apr 27, 2013, 04:24 PM
Apr 2013

the comparison no longer has meaning.
But most impartial estimates I have read say that at least 1 million Iraqis have died since we went in. Millions more became refugees and fled to Syria. God only knows how many of them are caught up in that conflict now. Many of those families who fled ended up selling themselves or their daughters into prostitution to survive.
Then take what has happened to our country with the loss of civil rights and I want to ask...
How many lives destroyed does it take to be comparable?

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