> I don't think it could be anywhere near that bad, and even if Bush
> doesn't plan to build a great country out of Iraq, it is highly
> unlikely he would allow such a civil war, it would make him look
> like a complete failure and that is one thing that he will not
> tolerate, no matter his sincerity.
>
But if the oil prices were reduced by a factor of 2 or 3, would his electors care about how many iraqis were being killed?
Probably not. As Stalin said: "The death of one man is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic".
How many people die every day of AIDS in Africa because the Capitalist Corporations insist on keeping anti-AIDS drugs so expensive as to make country-wide campaings impossible?
According to http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/, last year an estimate 2.4 million people in Africa died of HIV/AIDS. To answer your question, that's roughly 6,575 people each day -- or 4.6 people every minute... :-(
In other words, in the time it took me to write this message and did some research, some 100 people in Africa died of HIV/AIDS... :-(
Other stats (for sub-Saharan Africa, by far the worst effected region in the world):
- People living with HIV/AIDS: 29.4 million (including 3 million children under 15)
- New infections in 2002: 3.5 million
http://hivinsite.ucsf.edu/InSite.jsp?page=cr09-00-00
Jeroen "Make love, not war" van Baardwijk
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