kach22i |
07-06-2004 02:10 PM |
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Originally posted by Mulholland
Let's repeat this for your own clarity..."The United Nations, the U.S. State Department, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch (HRW) all estimate that Saddam Hussein's regime murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people"
USAid.gov
Supe, 350, kach...pull yer heads out...It really is unbecoming.
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Not to sound cold and unfeeling, but if our national securty is not the issue, why should I care how many Iraqi's or Columbian's are being killed? I do care, but have to ask: What if anything has changed? Please read the two differnt links below form the sources Mul referenced.
http://www.hrw.org/editorials/2003/iraq071803.htm
Show Trials are Not the Solution to Saddam's Heinous Reign
By Kenneth Roth (*)
It is difficult to contemplate, after the many horrors of the last century, that a government could get away with murdering a quarter of a million people. A quarter of a million Iraqis taken from their homes, driven to remote sites, and executed. A quarter of a million Iraqis who simply “disappeared,” without even the courtesy of notice to their families, let alone a trial and judgment. An average of 10,000 people a year for the two-and-a-half decades of the dictator's rule. That unthinkable tally is Saddam Hussein's legacy.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE140062004
Killings of civilians
More than 10,000 Iraqi civilians are thought to have been killed since 20 March 2003 as a direct result of the military intervention in Iraq, either during the war or in violent incidents during the subsequent occupation. The number is an estimate - no one in authority in Iraq is willing or able to catalogue the killings. "We don't have the capacity to track all civilian casualties", admitted US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt in February 2004.(2) A different attitude has been shown towards non-Iraqi civilians and soldiers who have been killed.
10,000 a year.......10,000 a year............10,000 a year..........and in the USA 40,000 a year die in auto accidents, another 40,000 from gun shots, and much more from second hand smoke...life goes on.
SmileWavy
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