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To: one_less who wrote (224144)	3/14/2007 2:40:26 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Nah, I think Stalin has him beat hands down. Pol just didn't try hard enough. moreorless.au.com 20 million. How did he find the time? :-) Mao? These guys claim 50 million. Sounds a bit high, actually. wiki.answers.com This guy gives him 38 million. marginalrevolution.com I'd say when you come to men and numbers like these, everybody's guessing. They do have their defenders, though. :-) rwor.org Lincoln? I'd say (as is generally true of successful politicians) that his motives were questionable and murky. He ran on the ticket of a party whose purpose was to abolish slavery. Then, when he won the election and the Southern states started seceding, he decided that wasn't his goal; he just wanted to keep the Union intact. Problem was, he laid claim to the federal forts scattered throughout what was now the Confederate States of America. They were having none of their enemy scattered throughout their territory. South Carolina set out to claim a federal fort in Charleston Harbor- -Fort Sumter- -and fired on it and took it by force. Lincoln viewed this as an act of insurrection and the war on. Lincoln was no angel. It would be hard to count the number of times he violated the US Constitution- -except he claimed this was a national emergency and his actions were within the scope of his war powers. Sherman? I'd say his actions during the civil war were justified and legalized by a state of war. After that....