Re: Boycott Brand America

Torsten Brinch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> staggered to the nearest keyboard
and wrote:

>
>417 US casualties as at November 19
>http://www.fallenheroesmemorial.com/oif/chronlist.html
>
>min 7878  max 9708 reported Iraqi civilian casualties 
>as at November 19
>http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm
>
>Weapons of mass destruction found, as at November 19:
>Biological: 0     Chemical: 0     Nuclear: 0


Some numbers the anti-war crowd would rather not think about:


Number of Iraqis who "disappeared" under Saddam's regime
est. 250,000-290,000 
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/iraq0503/2.htm#_Toc41888352
http://hrw.org/editorials/2003/iraqmassgraves.htm

Number of Kurds, Turkomans, and Assyrians forcibly expelled from their
homes by Saddam:
120,000
http://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/iraq0303/Kirkuk0303.htm

Hectares of ecologically unique southern marshland destroyed in order
to purge the area of Shia "marsh Arabs:"
over 600,000
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~leidermn/nscience.htm
(NB. this region was the putative "garden of Eden" in
Jewish/Christian/Islamic tradition!)

Number of "marsh Arabs" (primarily Shia) Saddam expelled from the
southern wetlands:
est. 100,000-200,000?
http://hrw.org/press/2003/01/iraq012503.htm
http://pubpages.unh.edu/~leidermn/nscience.htm


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