Thursday, April 12, 2007
The Price/Cost Of War.
Money can't fix the humanitarian crisis in Iraq.
According to the New York Times, the US has paid out more than $32m in compensation for civilian deaths, injuries and property damage.To maintain troop levels, the government has had to resort to this. ¶ 12:07 PM
"As these files remind us, war imposes heavy burdens on innocent civilians," said Jameel Jaffer, the deputy director of the ACLU's national security programme. "Although these files are deeply disturbing to read, they allow us to understand the human cost of war in a way that statistics and the usual platitudes do not."
