And Then There Are The Dead And Maimed

Five German armies with one million troops invaded Poland on September 1, 1939.

Approximately 14 million people were killed in the First World War.

An estimated 6,000 Japanese pilots died on suicide missions in the Second World War.

The price of a peaceful solution cannot be paid in violence.

History is the best weapon we have to defend the future.

Many people claim that the Iraq war was in some way a success.
As the USA formally ends its combat role, the country is lawless, riven by sectarian hate.
Despite its supposed ‘democracy’, its politicians cannot form a government.
Iran, supposedly our enemy, dominates Iraqi politics.
Christians have fled persecution in their tens of thousands.
Many Iraqis live abroad, too scared to return home for one good reason or another.
Women, far from being ‘liberated’, are now forced to wear black shrouds.
There is terror in the streets.
Power and water have never been properly restored.
The men America paid to fight for it are now deserting back to the insurgency.
And a new war is in the making over Kurdish control of the northern oilfields.
And then there are the dead and maimed.