Images

American Wars (Clarity Press, 2008) examines the many misconceptions about US wars and how they threaten to undermine our values.

This photograph is an illusion. The child, according to photographer Damir Sagolj, had just been injured in an attack in which her mother was killed and her father ‘riddled with bullets.’ An artist from Iowa Presidential Watch doctored the photo and presented it to the American media.

This photograph shows the true image of a little girl who was the victim of the March, 2003 US/UK coalition attack on the Iraqi city of Basra.

Man laments over a coffin of a lost loved one. In the background there are many more coffins in the open air.

Less than 10% of the targets in the 2003 bombing were Iraqi government sites.

A 2006 survey by Johns Hopkins University estimated that 655,000 people have died in the Iraq war.

This girl was wounded after US-led coalition air strikes over the Iraqi city of Basra on March 22, 2003.

U.S. government studies have concluded that foreign occupation is directly related to an increase in terrorism.

The cost of war affects us all:

  • 4,000 American soldiers killed,
  • 60,000 wounded.