[ii] Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1996).
[iii] Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America (Threshold Editions, 2015).
[iv] Christopher Preble, "How Americans Feel About Going to (Nuclear) War," War on the Rocks, click here (August 15, 2017).
[v] Nicolas J.S. Davies, "The Illusion of War Without Casualties," Consortium News, click here (March 9, 2018).
[vi] "Public Says It's Illegal to Target Americans Abroad As Some Question CIA Drone Attacks," AHHerald.com, click here (February 7, 2013).
[vii] Marjorie Cohn, "Pentagon to Allow Nuclear Responses to Non-Nuclear Attacks," Truthout, click here (February 6, 2018).
[viii] While the U.S. has typically paid $0 to $5,000 dollars as compensation for an Iraqi life, (see .informationclearinghouse.info/article18576.htm) the State Department and Blackwater arrived at the figure of $15,000, (see click here). At the same time, the lowest government value for a U.S. life was $5 million assigned by the Food and Drug Administration, (see click here).
[ix] "Harry S. Truman," Wikipedia, wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S._Truman#cite_ref-84.
[x] "Madeleine Albright -- The deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was worth it for Iraq's non existent WMD's," Youtube, .youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8.
[xi] Jon Greenberg, "Most people clueless on U.S. foreign aid spending," Politifact, click here (November 9, 2016).
[xii] Kevin Robillard, "Poll: Most only want foreign aid cuts," Politico, click here (February 22, 2013).
[xiii] David Swanson, "Ever More Shocked, Never Yet Awed," Let's Try Democracy, idswanson.org/iraq (March 18, 2013).
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