Just a note, but the Ba'ath Arab Socialist Party was founded (by a Lebanese Christian Arab) as an explicit pan-Arab take on National Socialism. Yes, that makes Baby Assad the last true fascist dictator.
-Adam Now, hopefully Godwin's Law ensues. P. J. Alling wrote: > You are not even worth arguing with. > > Iran Iraq War > > Causalities: > Iran = 1/2 Million Military, (God only knows how many civilian) > Iraq = 1/3 Million Military. > > Before you say the US supplied Saddam here's a list of the top 5 > suppliers of Military hardware to Iraq and the tonnages... > > Soviet Union 19.2 > France 5.5 > People's Republic of China 1.7 > Brazil 1.1 > Egypt 1.1 > Other countries 2.9 > > The US doesn't even make it into the top 5. > > Iran Invasion of Kuwait > > Kuwait Causalities 200 KIA, 600 POW who were returned 600+ Civilian > Hostages still missing, probably tortured to death. > > Iraq 100,000+ including those killed after the US entered the war. > > Then there are the estimated 5000 Kurds killed, (nominally Saddam's own > people), in Gas attacks, the estimated 10,000 "merely wounded", who's > health problems may never go away. The Marsh Arabs killed in air > attacks, by bullets an bombs, whole villages killed retail by brigades > of soldiers going house to house killing everyone because Saddam was > just pissed off. The 10's of thousands arrested and held in jails, > until there wasn't enough room for more so the Jails were "emptied", > (and most of those prisoners were not released). > > How about the people that his sons killed just for fun, or the women, > some as young as 10 who were raped and disposed of by Uday, (given nice > pensions maybe?). To keep them from talking. > > The estimates of how many Iraqis this amounts to in total is estimated > on the low end to 2 hundred thousand, and on the high end 8 million, (in > a country that has a present day population of about 22 million), over > the 30 years the Baath > > So shut up and go home. > > SJ wrote: > >>four years of occupation of another sovereign country with another >>'surge' in troops in the offing; an illegal war not sanctioned by the >>UN; 6,50,000 people dead in those four years, 3000 of them american... >> >>all for what? democracy? come on, saddam is a baby in the woods. >> >> >>On 1/9/07, DagT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>>Are you citing Saddam or Bush? >>> >>> >>> >>>>Fra: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>>If we can't have respect then fear will have to do... >>>> >>>>William Robb wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>----- Original Message ----- >>>>>From: "P. J. Alling" Subject: Re: PESO - American Fence >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>You can't make everyone happy all the time, and personally I'd prefer to >>>>>>respected. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>>Therin lies the problem. The Bushites have cost your country more than you >>>>>could ever begin to imagine. >>>>> >> >> > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
