> > then why did you bother? Because I'm tired of the crap. I did a bit of real research, Human Rights Watch for the estimate of the Kurdish death toll. www.GlobalSecurity.org has a nice set of numbers for the Iran Iraq war estimates, they agree in general with several other sources. www.kuwait-embassy.or.jp for the Kuwait numbers. There were a number of places that had minimum and maximum numbers for total dead from the Ba'athist regimes over 30 years, I took two that were neither the highest nor lowest figures.
It's very difficult to find data on genocidal regimes such as the Ba'ath party under Saddam, they tend to not file reports with the UN about their illegitimate activities. By the way, anyone who's done any "Social Science", (and I use the word science very loosely in this context), research will tell you that survey data is not to be trusted, especially if there are actual bodies that can be counted. It seems that the JHU never heard that, at least based on the article as I read it. SJ wrote: > On Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:41:58 -0500 > "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You are not even worth arguing with. >> > > then why did you bother? > > [...] > >> 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. >> > > sorry for replying late to this, i have been travelling and staying > away from the Net for the last ten days. > > i got my figures of casualties in iraq after the US invasion > (6,50,000 total, 3000 american) from a peer-reviewed findings of the > the School of Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University. see here: > > http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2006/16oct06/16iraq.html > > where did you get yours? > > in case it helps to clarify things, *i* have absolutely no problems > differentiating between the government of a country and its people. > > regards, subash > > -- -- The more I know of men, the more I like my dog. -- Anne Louise Germaine de Stael -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
