Re: 17,000 deaths a year from the cold

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> > > > > > > 17,000 deaths a year from the cold
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Given the amounts of money that Dumbyas has added to the
national
> > > debt,
> > > > I
> > > > > > expect that a lot more people will be dying of the cold as the
> > economy
> > > > > > tanks. Wasting resources ( measured in dollars ) for stupid
> > exercises
> > > in
> > > > > > fascism just means that more people are likely to be put in the
> > > > positions
> > > > > of
> > > > > > not having the resources to survive. And if you think that
> stealing
> > > > Iraqs
> > > > > > oil is going to lower fuel prices, you just *have not* done the
> > math.
> > > > The
> > > > > > war is costing more per MONTH than full production of Iraqi
fields
> > > could
> > > > > > produce in a year.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Which just goes to show that oil is NOT why we are in Iraq.
> > > >
> > > > non-sequitor.(that means "it does not follow" for you idiots). The
few
> > who
> > > > promoted the war ( such as halivburton) ARE profitting enormously
from
> > > > government contracts at the expense of the public.
> > > >
> > > > Get a clue!
> > > >
> > >
> > > Clue:  Someone is going to profit. be it Hariburton, Bechtel, or
> another.
> > > It will be at the expense of the American people regardless.
> >
> > That was what I said. A small minority with 'connnection' are going to
> > profit while the public is left with hundreds of billions of wasted
money
> to
> > pay for their private party.  And this is before we even go into the
> > casualties and injured on both sides.
> >
> > You will note that they did not even try to justify the war on the
grounds
> > of economics ( we need the oil ) but by an think tank decision on what
the
> > public would 'buy' as an excuse and every rationalisation they have come
> up
> > with has been shown to be false.
> >
>
> Except one - genocide:  The brutality of the Hussein regime to his own
> people, as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands found in mass graves
> throughout the country.

Sorry but that amounts to total crap. Not even his enemies think him capable
of killing 'hundreds of thousands'. of enemies. I expect you are referring
to the mass burial of soldiers killed in the Iran/Iraq war, fueled by the
U.S. and they would only amount to tens of thousands. There was also a
civilian uprising ( of Shiites in Basra?) after the first gulf war that
might have hundreds of dead buried. No 'blame' attaches to putting down a
rebellion, just as no claim of 'purity' attaches to being a rebel. Civil
wars are outside of such consideration.