NO
David Gentleman
Stop the War Coalition
East End Offset
Offset, circa 2003
London, UK
24662
CSPG’s Poster of the
Week marks the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War. This dramatic but simple poster uses David
Gentleman’s signature blood splatter to escalate the written “NO” into a SCREAMED,
NO
On February 15, 2013, a month before the war began, tens of
millions of people demonstrated in approximately 800 cities around the world, trying
to prevent the war—the largest protest in history. This poster was carried
in the London anti-war protest, where
up to one million protestors gathered in Hyde Park.
DemocracyNow.org marked the 10th anniversary by presenting
"The Costs of War," a new report by a team of 30 economists,
anthropologists, political scientists, legal experts and physicians about the
impact of the Iraq War. The report found the total number of people who have
died from the Iraq War, including soldiers, militants, police, contractors,
journalists, humanitarian workers and Iraqi civilians, has reached at least
189,000 people, including at least 123,000 civilians. Financially, the report
estimates a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $2.2 trillion, a figure that could one
day approach $4 trillion with the interest accrued on the borrowed money used
to fund the war.
It is critical to remember that the war, as so many other
U.S. wars, was started on a lie.
The lie behind the Iraq War claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of
mass destruction. This lie was
compounded by the continual linking by the George W. Bush Administration, that
Saddam Hussein was directly involved with the September 11, 2001 attack on the
U.S. It is also important to remember that the Viet Nam War escalated due to a
lie that U.S. destroyers were attacked by the North Vietnamese in the Gulf of
Tonkin.
When will we ever learn?
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