--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 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? >
No, MDixon...if we want to give credit where credit is due, we can look at all those who participated in the anti-war movement in the '60s and '70s in this country who through their actions successfully got the U.S. to pull out of vietnam. More people in southeast asia were killed in the 2 years following the U.S. retreat than in the entire 14 years of U.S. involvement. Everything -- and more -- that the so-called right-wing fanatics predicted would happen in southeast asia happened. And it happened in spades. We were warned that if communism were allowed to spread there that it would result in death and destruction and suffering in very high numbers, just as it had in pretty well every place that communism takes hold. And even worse happened. So let's give credit where credit is due. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Does he tell you he loves you when he hits you? Abuse. Narrated by Halle Berry. http://us.click.yahoo.com/hemMeA/rbOLAA/d1hLAA/0NYolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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 <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
