Ppl killed on 9/11: 2, 973 (wikipedia)
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: 2, 948 (as of Dec 19, icasualties.org)

Total # of "coalition" troops killed surpasses 9/11 death toll with 3, 195 fatalities.

...not to mention the grotesque number of Iraqi civilian casualties

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Ppl killed on 9/11: 2, 973 (wikipedia)
U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq: 2, 948 (as of Dec 19, icasualties.org

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Tragic. A total waste of life.

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...not to mention the grotesque number of Iraqi civilian casualties

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Of course not. That toll is approximately 650,000 and growing rapidly, according to the World Health Organization.

Despite the US deaths, Americans are hardly the main victims. The US government is literally committing genocide. But that's OK with the corporate media.

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Wasn't the rationale for going to war to prevent ANOTHER deadly act on the same scale as 9/11?

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No, sadly, the rationale was clearly to remove a former US-backed murdering dictator who had fallen out of favour and install a new puppet regime more directly supervised by the US government--all to protect Corporate America's interests.