Eugene Coyle wrote: >If Suharto is a bad person, what does that make the President(s) of the USA >that backed him? > (List as many others here as you like.) Clearly you don't understand. Deaths under Communist regimes are proof of the system's intrinsic and inevitable barbarism. Deaths under capitalist regimes are excesses, errors, the products of rogue elements, growing pains, etc. etc. Stunning factoid: according to an article in Foreign Affairs, aerial bombardment has killed some 2 million people in this century. The death toll from sanctions against Iraq is over 1 million. Excess? Error? Rogue elements? Growing pains? Doug