Christopher Hitchens, Despite Criticism And Casualties, Defended Iraq War To The End

More than 600,000 Iraqis died between 2002-2006 according to Lancet; more than 2 million Iraqis have been displaced.

The number of veterans diagnosed with PTSD is increasing as well: Young veterans are three times as likely as veterans older than 40 to be diagnosed with PTSD or another mental illness, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Of the 750,000 veterans of wars in Afghanista­n and Iraq, more than 100,000 have sought mental-hea­lth treatment from the government­, and about half of those have been diagnosed with PTSD.

The VA has no ability to provide the care these veterans need.

This war and occupation is an ongoing atrocity that will never heal until those responsibl­e stand at the bar of justice.
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