How many Iraqii's is Sadaam supposed to have killed?

StephanieMarie

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Fri Dec-16-05 05:38 PM
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How many Iraqii's is Sadaam supposed to have killed?

Because we've killed from 30,000 to 100,000 depending on who's estimate you take.

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The_Casual_Observer

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Fri Dec-16-05 05:40 PM
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1. It's something like 300,000, however, even though there was a frenzy

Edited on Fri Dec-16-05 05:41 PM by The_Casual_Observer

to uncover the "mass graves" after our invasion, they were able to account for about 5000 or so. I suspect that the rest were similar to the WMD stories.

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Ezlivin

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Fri Dec-16-05 05:40 PM
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2. It really doesn't matter because he did it on PURPOSE

We did it by accident.

All deaths caused by us are good deaths.

:sarcasm:

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Spinzonner

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Fri Dec-16-05 06:00 PM
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5. Yes, all those bombs were dropped accidently

(Yes, I know it was sarcasm)

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sistersofmercy

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Fri Dec-16-05 05:51 PM
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3. Some of the RW cite 1.2 million...

but that number is the combined causalties reported on both sides of the Iran/Iraq War. Another fun fact is about the uprising by the Shia in the south and the Kurds in the North following GWI, nobody really talks about how many government employees were killed by the Shia and the Kurds. Some of their victims were dismembered and hung from bridges prior to the Iraqi troops moving in, sound familiar?

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stray cat

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Fri Dec-16-05 05:51 PM
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4. We would be a fool to minimize Saddams crimes.

We can appropriately judge US actions without condoning evil doers outside the US. Evil is evil, bad is bad.

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killbotfactory

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Fri Dec-16-05 06:11 PM
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8. We need to determine which crimes are fabricated

Our claims of what Saddam did, and the reality of what he did, are grossly inconsistent.

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jeff30997

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Fri Dec-16-05 06:04 PM
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6. He killed brazillions of Eeraquis.

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maxsolomon

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Fri Dec-16-05 06:06 PM
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7. do you count all the deaths from the iran/iraq war?

that's a lot. saddam sucked.

that doesn't wash the blood off our hands.

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StephanieMarie

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Fri Dec-16-05 06:23 PM
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9. but we backed Iran in the Iran-Iraq war,

so isn't some of that blood on our hands too?

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killbotfactory

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Fri Dec-16-05 06:27 PM
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10. Of course not!

We're the good guys!

(we backed both sides at times, in order to increase the slaughter and weaken both nations, btw)

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radar

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Fri Dec-16-05 06:30 PM
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11. We'll probably never know...

I think thus far, he's only been charged with "...events in the town of Dujayl, where an assassination attempt against Saddam in 1982 led to widespread executions and other punishments."
Saddam Charged by Iraqi Tribunal By Anthony Dworkin July18, 2005
http://www.crimesofwar.org/onnews/news-saddam2.html

...Makes it easier for the US gov't to avoid letting the public record show how buddy-buddy we were with him in the 80's.
Shaking Hands: Iraqi President Saddam Hussein greets Donald Rumsfeld, then special envoy of President Ronald Reagan, in Baghdad on December 20, 1983
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

...And Saddam getting a chance to say in court, which western countries gave him the chemical weapons & delivery systems to employ them.
"...In 1984, the administration engineered the sale to Baghdad of 45 ostensibly civilian-use Bell 214ST helicopters. Saddam's military found them quite useful for attacking Kurdish civilians with poison gas in 1988, according to U.S. intelligence sources."
Rumsfeld�s Handshake Deal With Saddam
History Out of Media Bounds Media Beat (12/8/05) By Norman Solomon
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2773

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kenny blankenship

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Fri Dec-16-05 06:55 PM
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12. A whole lot, but look at it this way:

it took him a lot longer to kill them all.

We are doing a far better job than the broken down, bureaucratic Ba'athist Party could ever claim to do.

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OneTwentyoNine

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Fri Dec-16-05 07:21 PM
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13. Isn't it up around a billion or so by now??

You know the drill,keep the amount SH killed WAY,WAY above the inoccents that BUSH KILLED. Sweet Jesus I HATE that fucker!!!!

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