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To: epicure who wrote (221372)	2/27/2007 2:29:40 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Maybe someone hasn't done an estimate because it wasn't all that bloody a takeover. If it had been super violent, you'd figure (or I would figure, at least) that there'd be a lot more written on it, right? Those 500,000 boat people had nowhere to go - the US only took in smaller numbers from the first wave, most wound up in refugee camps for years, some were forcibly repatriated to Vietnam. The journey was a desperate one, many died at sea, since the pirates were thick as the sharks. People don't run like that for no reason. Especially when they know they can't come back and have no safe haven in view. I've heard lots of people point to how many people are fleeing Iraq. But that's a relatively safe journey and they have where to go in Jordan. It's just a matter of not wanting to look at certain history.