Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Fidel Castro and TM

[MDixon6569]

In a message dated 12/9/05 8:08:00 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Castro is responsible for about 50,000 deaths and enslaving 11 > million Cubans. > So, about the same as some of our recent Presidents? Johnson with his ~73,000 Vietnam War dead (American deaths only) came to mind. Though I don't recall specifically the dictators he supported under his administration so I can't correlate the 11 million enslaved. And Bush the first killed roughly 100,000 Iraqis during the first war, and then allowed Sadaam to remain in power, enslaving roughly 25 million. Oh, and Reagan propped up quite a few central american dictatorships during his terms, easily surpassing the '11 million enslaved' number. Let's give credit where it is due in Vietnam. Starting with Eisenhower who sent advisors , Kennedy who actually sent fighting troops and pulled off the coup and murder of Diem, Johnson who escalated the mess to it's peak. Nixon and Ford at least committed themselves to a withdrawal of troops although it wasn't the cut n run tactic the democrats have come to embrace. I think the more accurate combat death figure was about 58,000. < Bush 41 led a coalition which may have killed 100,000 Iraqis,in order to expel Iraq from Kuwait,  but it was the UN that left Saddam in power, who had already enslaved 25 million Iraqis.< As for  Reagan propping up central American dictators who enslaved their people, I can't think of any that confiscated massive amounts of private property, or prohibited their people from leaving their country or made people work for the state or had mass executions. Seems like Jimmy Carter is about to escape this mess. Didn't he prop up or at least recognize the Pol Pot regime that murdered 2 million Cambodians and enslaved the rest just to keep the newly reunified government of Vietnam in check? To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS  Visit your group "FairfieldLife" on the web.    To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]    Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.