At 06:24 PM 7/27/2003 -0700 Gautam Mukunda wrote:
>--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm glad you brought this up, Michael, because the
>> answer is between
>> 100,000 and 200,000. Meanwhile, according to
>> UNICEF, Saddam Hussein was
>> kiilling around 5,000 people a day. Of course,
>> the Left only cares
>> about people killed by Americans.... thus if you get
>> killed in Zimbabwe,
>> don't expect ANSWER to start rallying international
>> support to stop the
>> killing.
>>
>> JDG
>
>Where did those numbers come from? 200,000? Not a
>chance. There hasn't even been _time_ for that.
>Direct civilian casualties seem to have been on the
>order of 1000.
Didn't the Iraqi Information Minister say that the total number of
casualties was 100,000? Given Michael's procliviites, I was using that
as something of an upper bound.
JDG
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