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To: tejek who wrote (164458)	3/16/2003 10:42:48 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574249

I only have one older sibling but I suppose I used to drive her nuts. She is two years older then I am. If she was playing with toys or blocks or something I would go over and knock them all down. I'm told she would then say "put him in the crib mommy, put him in the crib". I guess is she had her way I would have been kept in a crib until about 5. Tim

To: tejek who wrote (164458)	3/16/2003 11:02:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574249

Everything I have read suggests over 500k is an exaggeration; anything over a million is a gross exaggeration. I went back a bit and looked at Your posts and Joe's and the links about this subject. It seems that the Iran Iraq war alone is at least 300k, could be more then 500k dead. You yourself said it exceeded 300k on both sides. I figure at least 50k dead maybe 100k from the Gulf war. About the Iraqi civilian deaths since the Gulf war you say "The UN came up with 500k and I bet Saddam inflated all his numbers to a million....its what he does best." Ok so take another 500k. Then you have to add some for the people Saddam killed in Iraq before the Gulf war. Add it all up and you get a pretty wide ranger but somewhere between maybe 500k on the low end and a little bit above a million on the high end. So the "millions" the DRay said would be an exaggeration, but if the highest possible count is true then it isn't a huge one. Even if I take the low figure and then cut it in half and get 250k millions (or in other words at least 2 million) doesn't seem to be as big of exaggeration as saying Milosevic posed a big threat to all of Europe. I think we have probably gone around on this to make further comment unproductive. I will probably let you have the last word with your reply (but I don't make any garuntees :)