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Re: Help me with the math
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Tue, 7 Sep 2004 20:30:47 GMT
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"Dave Schuler" <orrex@excite.com> wrote in message
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> Now that <http://icasualties.org/oif/ George W. Bush has killed> his • 1,000th US
> citizen in Iraq, does that make him approximately 33% as bad as Osama bin • Laden,
> who killed about 3,000 people in the WTC? Oh, wait--Bush has killed • thousands
> more than that, when you factor in all of the
> <http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm Iraqis> he's killed for the • sake of
> their liberty.
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> And does this have anything to do with why Bush all but refuses even to • mention
> bin Laden's name in the past half-dozen or so months?
The main difference is that soldiers are asking for it. They are paying for
bad US foreign politics.
The people in WTC were not begging for it. (They only had to pay for bad US
foreign politics)
/J
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| (...) Well, that's the point, isn't it? Bush deliberately initiated an unjustified war, and now 1,000+ US soldiers are dead, along with ~12,000 innocent Iraqis. I agree that soldiers put themselves in harm's way, but one would hope that they (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| Now that (URL) George W. Bush has killed> his 1,000th US citizen in Iraq, does that make him approximately 33% as bad as Osama bin Laden, who killed about 3,000 people in the WTC? Oh, wait--Bush has killed thousands more than that, when you factor (...) (20 years ago, 7-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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