Wow.
Not sure where the 20,000 figure comes from, but if that's the evidence that GWB is the "worst that civilization has to offer", I'm a bit puzzled.
By most accounts, Saddam Hussein was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, some by horrible gassing and others by warfare, torture, etc. Accounts of how many died vary widely, but you'd have to move the decimal point to the right from the 20,000 figure to get anywhere close. (I've never seen an estimate below 200,000 for "deaths caused by Saddam", and some estimates have ranged toward 2 million though those are probably exaggerated.)
Then we get to some other fine offerings of civilization. Hitler? A tad more than 20,000 dead, I'd say. Stalin? Seems a bit worse than GWB, but hey, at least he didn't approve of outsourcing Lizzie's job. Pol Pot? The leaders of China's "Great Leap Forward" and then the Cultural Revolution (some estimates of deaths range as high as 20 million during those periods, which would be three decimal points removed from GWB's alleged total.)
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The Japanese military governments of the first half of the 20th century? And on and on and on.
I wish I could have gone to Berkeley and got myself an edyoucashun that left all that stuff out. It would have really lightened my undergrad load of depressing reading. |
