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To: i-node who wrote (161357)2/18/2003 12:18:58 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1574854
 
One million people? Are you talking about the Iran war? Then consider that he did it with our help...ask Rummy, Reagan and Bush Sr.

Actually, the young Iraqi girl I heard speak today says the numbers of innocent Iraqi citizens killed has exceed a million, with the wars on top of it.


Lets get the real facts on exactly how evil Saddam is. The Right has played so fast and loose with those facts, its downright disturbing.

**Saddam vs the Kurds:

its estimated that 50-100k Kurds were killed by Saddam during the 80s. Thousands more were killed during the Kurds uprising in 1991. Clearly, Saddam is not a nice man but a Hitler.......I don't think so.

**http://www.msnbc.com/news/834492.asp?0si=-

Iraqi Iranian War:

This one may be an example of the lesser of two evils; Iran and Iraq being the two evils. Its been really hard for objective observers to get a clear death count since each participant has tried to paint their opponent as the one with the higher death count, and therefore, the true loser of the war. Iran claims 200k deaths while Iraq claims it killed 800k Iranians. Most observers believe the Iranian death count is closer to the truth with the Iraqi death toll half of the Iranian count. That would mean both sides together lost at or less than 500k.

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To put all of this killing into the proper perspective, it one estimate of the death toll during the Vietnam war was 1.7 million of which 600k were estimated to be civilian.

Saddam is an ruthless dictator but a piker compared to some of the others that have come along on this planet.

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