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To: mph who wrote (7770)	5/17/2004 10:38:17 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) of 90947

Without counting the war dead in the Iraq and Iran war, which the US had a hand in inflating the number of deaths by aiding both sides of that conflict anyway, you have an estimated 200,000 deaths or disappeared people. In 24 years of power that's an average of 8,500 a year. Not nice for sure. But then we participated in helping Iran and Iraq kill off 500,000 people in the Iraq Iran war. In any case 8,500 a year is not 10,000 a month as was put forth. I'd bet that most of those 200,000 killed where Kurds pre 91 and then Shia post 91. So the average monthly toll heading into '03 was probably a few hundred. None the less there is not justification that I can think of for killing another 20,000, or 40,000 Iraqis, especially when other avenues were open to us. Orca

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