At 06:24 PM 7/27/2003 -0700 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm glad you brought this up, Michael, because the >> answer is between >> 100,000 and 200,000. Meanwhile, according to >> UNICEF, Saddam Hussein was >> kiilling around 5,000 people a day. Of course, >> the Left only cares >> about people killed by Americans.... thus if you get >> killed in Zimbabwe, >> don't expect ANSWER to start rallying international >> support to stop the >> killing. >> >> JDG > >Where did those numbers come from? 200,000? Not a >chance. There hasn't even been _time_ for that. >Direct civilian casualties seem to have been on the >order of 1000.
Didn't the Iraqi Information Minister say that the total number of casualties was 100,000? Given Michael's procliviites, I was using that as something of an upper bound. JDG _______________________________________________________ John D. Giorgis - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The liberty we prize is not America's gift to the world, it is God's gift to humanity." - George W. Bush 1/29/03 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l