a thirty pound eye for an eye

A new scientific study has concluded that around 100,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed as a result of our invasion. That number doesn't include Falluja however, as it's too dangerous to go in there, which could possibly raise the number to 200,000. This is way bigger than the 15,000 that Iraq Body Count reports, but also not relient on two separate news agencies reporting each death individually.

I think it's great. The Terrorists™ attack us on our own turf, killing 3000 of our people. We use those 3000 deaths to justify an invasion of a soveriegn nation that had nothing to do with their deaths and kill 100,000 of their innocent civilians in turn. Not only that, but we interrupt the delicate balance of peace that existed in the region which now threatens to turn into all-out civil war, dragging the entire Arabic-speaking world into chaos which will inevitably lead to chaos throughout the world. Yes, God (and definitely not the other guy) is truly on our side.

Fuck. We truly deserve whatever punishment God has lined up for us.