On Sep 10, 2006, at 5:37 PM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 10 Sep 2006 at 10:45, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Sep 9, 2006, at 5:10 AM, Andrew Crystall wrote:
On 8 Sep 2006 at 7:37, Nick Arnett wrote:
researchers will inevitably say that the body count
has crossed 100,000.
No, not really - it's disputed.
Cite, please.
http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/dveathby.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_conflict_in_Iraq_since_
2003
Yes, it's based off a *2004* survey.
Some of it seems to be -- the Wiki piece has claims that could easily
pass 100K already. The info at http://iraqbodycount.org/ seems to be
about half that. But that's current numbers, and I think Nick was
projecting through to the end of the "war".
All of this madness to stop a madman, Saddam Hussein.
Who was killing arround 175 of his subjects a day a rate which
excluding the war itself has been slashed by over two thirds. (And by
over half, including the war).
Cite, please.
http://www.moreorless.au.com/killers/hussein.html
I do have better figures but they're offline..I'll see if I can get
permission to scan them.
I'm not sure which figures from that site you're using to make the
claim that Hussein "was killing arround 175 of his subjects a day". I
think adding the half-million claimed dead due to trade sanctions
wouldn't fly with some; after all, he didn't levy the sanctions on his
own nation.
The guy definitely had his problems, but he was not the reason the WTC
was attacked; his nation had nothing to do with it; and all the
hand-waving in the world won't change that fact.
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