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Re: Help me with the math
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:55:38 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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Now that 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
Iraqis he’s killed for the sake
of their liberty.
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So what about the 1-2 hundred thousand Saddam was not able to kill as political
prisoners? (the longer we go the highet that number gets) It is estimated he
killed 1.5 million between the two Gulf wars.
Now don’t get me wrong there are a lot of things they have done poorly (they
should have demolished that prison instead of using it for example) but even the
majority of Iraqi’s who don’t like the “occupation” admit they are better off
now than they were before.
Of course I also believe a dictatorship is not a soveriegn nation.
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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?
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Well as far as I am concerned the whole situation in the Middle East is a result
of stupid cold-war era descisions and is therefore our responsibilty to correct.
However it seems to me neither party has any interest in doing that.
-Mike Petrucelli
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| (...) A couple of points: To date, no huge mass graves have been found, so we're left with the uncomfortable problem of explaining where the 1.5 million bodies went. And I'm not looking for Pol Pot's "show me the bodies, or else there was no (...) (20 years ago, 10-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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