The American War Machine Grinds on, with Little Care for the Innocent Dead It Leaves in Its Wake | | AlterNet

The American War Machine Grinds on, with Little Care for the Innocent Dead It Leaves in Its Wake | | AlterNet

The following is the text of a speech Swanson delivered on Saturday May 14 at the Athens Human Rights Festival in Athens, Ga.

U.S. newspapers sometimes print what they call the total death count from one or more of our wars, and all the dead who are listed are Americans. They aren't all the Americans. They don't include contractors or suicides or various other categories of dead Americans. They certainly don't include those who died for lack of basic needs while we dumped half of our public treasury into wars.