Taken from JRE #1639 w/Dave Smith:
They Lied to get us into War (4 times)
Why can’t the UN pressure China to stop behaving like a world bully and stop threatening the neighbors with force?World bully for doing these?
Costs of War: US, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, etc
US BUDGETARY COSTS: $6.4 TRILLION
The vast economic impact of the post-9/11 wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere is poorly understood by the US public and policymakers. This paper estimates the budgetary costs of war, including past expenditures and obligations to care for veterans of these wars throughout their lifetimes.
HUMAN COSTS: OVER 801,000
The number of people killed directly in the violence of the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and elsewhere are approximated here. Several times as many civilians have died due to the reverberating effects of these wars. The methods of accounting are described in this paper.
PEOPLE DISPLACED: 37 MILLION
37 million people have been displaced by the post-9/11 wars in Afghanstan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Yemen, Somalia and the Philippines.