Pictures and note sent to US Senators

This is Rawa, the lone survivor of an airstrike that killed her parents and siblings in Qaiyara, Iraq last year. The U.S.-led coalition confirmed to us that it bombed “a known ISIS weapons cache” approximately “10 meters away.” Read more from our investigation into coalition air strikes in Iraq in “The Uncounted” in the NYT Magazine.

 An injured child in Iraq. Nobody really knows how many civilians have been killed in the country. Getty via The Independent UK newspaper. “Sixteen years after Bush launched his so-called “war on terror” millions of people’s lives have been turned upside down, Isis has been allowed to fester and spread, and Iraq is a nation at risk of fracturing apart. Moreover, an untold number of innocent civilians have been killed – by disease, illness, in gruesome tortures performed by local and foreign insurgents, and by the US and UK-led military campaign.” - from The Independent UK

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Dear Senator: In light of the fact that you voted for the NDAA and increased the US military budget and you voted to give the President the power to start new wars without consulting Congress, I am writing to you today to share my thoughts and some information on the current ongoing wars. These wars of aggression on both Iraq and Afghanistan have costs us trillions of dollars, have killed more innocent people than we can count (not that we ever tried to count them) and has spread terrorism to way beyond were it was in September 2001. We would have been better off just doing nothing after the 9/11 attacks! This is both immoral and unjustified and reflects a rot in the US American soul that is very deep indeed. I want to know why you consistently support this evil? Do you recognize how stupid it is to support this? Do the campaign contributions that you receive more important than these children’s lives and futures? Is the profits of our weapons manufacturers more important than these children’s lives and future? Do you care at all? When is this evil going to end? When we have poisoned the whole planet? Is that when it is going to end? Please send your responses to these questions to me.