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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (289652)	6/24/2004 10:37:41 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) of 436258

This news has been developing all day and has been updated by reuters. There were earlier posts about this, but the full extent of the attacks is still unfolding. Now up to 100 people have died: reuters.com "BAGHDAD (Reuters) - About 100 people were killed and several hundred wounded in Iraq on Thursday when insurgents launched bloody assaults in five cities to disrupt next week's formal handover to Iraqi rule." The saddest thing about this is the continouous loss of innocent life. War supporters argue that people died under Saddam Hussein. That may be true in itself. But the truth is, we do not really know how many or how. He was a tyrant and he was an unpleasant human being who killed people or had people killed, that much is true. But what we DO know is, that the power vacuum following his overthrow led by an incapable and incompetent administration has directly led to the deaths of anywhere between 12,000 and 55,000 Iraqis: medact.org G.W. Bush should have listened to his father: "I firmly believed that we should not march into Baghdad. ... To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter day Arab hero... assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war." -- Former president George Herbert Walker Bush in 'A World Transformed'

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