Why Are There No Anti-War Voices In the Media?

    Since 2001 over 7,000 US soldiers have died and 52,000 were wounded in the Middle East. 313,000-336,000 civilians have been killed since 2001 in the Middle East. It cost the US 6.4 trillion dollars for a decade of war. In my research on the topic, I found a quote from a man who fought in the Iraq War, he said of the war: "We were fighting a guerrilla force because we were occupying a country. We never found the weapons of mass destruction they were reported to have. We removed Saddam Hussein from power, which was one of our goals. It just became us versus them for no other reason besides the fact that we were in their country." War is too profitable for it to be a mainstream topic. The media is being used as a tool to make us feel like we are not actively in the war, or that we are in peacetime. When you're in a perceived "peacetime"  the anti-war conversations would entail a certain level of demilitarization. Based on the military-industrial complex, that is not a profitable goal. The US makes money off of wars. We sell weapons to our allies, so the more war we have, the more profit we can make because of the trade and selling of weapons. 

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