No More Endless War – Join Protest Saturday March 19
March 19 marks the 13-year anniversary of the start of the U.S. war on Iraq. It’s a day of protest and remembrance. Unfortunately for most millennials who are uninformed about the war, it will be a day in which we will not participate. Let’s change the notion of our youth not being able to partake in this movement by educating ourselves on the war in Iraq.
Here is some basic knowledge about the war that started 13 years ago.
Consequences of the war started 13 years ago:
- The war in Iraq has affected not only the parties involved, but it has created a chain reaction on the neighboring regions. The strengthening and formation of Islamic fundamentalist militia organizations in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and Pakistan. Any stability that Iraq had before the war is nonexistent in post-war Iraq.
- 13 years of a body count of Iraqis that keeps growing. Many innocent lives were lost due to the war. Studies project at least 1.6 million deaths from 2003-2015. “Between 800,000 and a million Iraqi children have lost one or both parents”
- More than $3.7 trillion dollars spent on the war and it’s aftermath. The war in Iraq has not only created a huge strain on the U.S. economy but it has completely destroyed Iraqi infrastructure and economic stability.
- This war has left one country in blood and ruins (Iraq), and another with a mess too big to clean up and no good reason to invade in the first place (United States). “The U.S. made a dictator look like an angel, compared to what we have now.” -VICE In Saddam’s Shadow (Waleed Nesyif)
This is why you should care about the war as a millennial and why you should join us on March 19 for the 13th anniversary. End the trend of ignorance ignoring the war!
Imagine a foreign army coming into the United States murdering our leader (president) and our army men, destroying millions of families. Destroying our houses of worship, our museums, all our religious and important cultural places – and then using as an excuse that the invaders are trying to help us. It was not and still isn’t our responsibility going into countries and invading! Take a stand for the thousands of Iraqis who were “accidentally killed” because of the ongoing war.
Saturday March 19
12:00 pm Steps of NY Public Library 5th Avenue & 42nd Street
1:00 pm March to Times Square Military Recruiting Center 43rd & Broadway
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