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1. BY arcadia 05.15.08 AT 12:26 PM

   Thanks, Mickey. Those folks need all the help they can get.

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2. BY Kyle A 05.15.08 AT 12:31 PM

   Arcadia, that’s so true. Of course, you really think that those folks should just never have been born, as you indicated a few posts down from here.

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3. BY arcadia 05.15.08 AT 2:04 PM

   Kyle: Give it a rest.

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4. BY Bob Buckles 05.15.08 AT 2:58 PM

   Apologize!

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5. BY Kyle A 05.15.08 AT 3:02 PM

   Bob Buckles, whom are you directing to apologize?

   I will not. I cited Arcadia’s exact sentiments from the earlier post.

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6. BY GodLumps 05.15.08 AT 3:21 PM

   This is terrible and sad. Not as many as our war of choice has killed in Iraq though.

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7. BY kimberly 05.15.08 AT 6:02 PM

   Actually, Godlumps, I believe 50 thousand soars far above the number of soldiers killed in Iraq.

   As for civilians, how many of those would have died anyway under Sadaam’s deadly regime?

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8. BY GodLumps 05.15.08 AT 6:37 PM

   Mental illness rears its ugly head in the most unexpected of ways. Get help.

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9. BY hrw 05.15.08 AT 8:00 PM

   how many of those would have died anyway under Sadaam’s deadly regime?

   And I thought I was a cynic. “those” — ie the human beings who lived there. My dad used to whack me every time I referred to my mom as “she”. I thought it was an extreme form of politeness but he had a point. A pronoun without reference to a living breathing person allows for greater disrespect.

   The direct body count is 80 – 90K and the indirect count by Lancet is 600,000. Since you seem to think Saddam would have been worse, please inform me of the body count. I lean towards the indirect count since Saddam had the decency to provide Iraq with clean water and a reliable supply of electricity.

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10. BY GodLumps 05.16.08 AT 12:40 AM

    HRW-Not as cynical and dismissive of sacred life as Kimberly.

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11. BY Kwerna 05.16.08 AT 9:51 AM

    The Lancet tally is biased and unreliable, to say the least. Sample analysis here: http://news.nationaljournal.com/articles/databomb/index.htm

    “…George Soros funded the survey. The U.S. authors played no role in data-collection, and did not apply standard anti-fraud measures. The chief Iraqi data-collector had earlier produced medical articles to help Saddam’s anti-sanctions campaign in the 1990s, and said Allah guided the prior 2004 Lancet/Johns Hopkins death-survey. Some of the field surveyors were employed by Moqtada Sadr’s Ministry of Health. The Iraqis’ numbers contain evidence of fakery, and the Lancet did not check for fakery….”

    The actual body count is closer to 50,000.

    But why does every topic have to turn to wearisome and inane political posturing? We were talking about praying for earthquake victims and it didn’t last two posts.

    Chi-chi political edginess is boring and predictable, and before hijacking a topic, one should consider whether one isn’t a bit of a Johnny One Note. Let’s see some other sides of you, folks.

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12. BY GodLumps 05.17.08 AT 2:03 AM

    “But why does every topic have to turn to wearisome and inane political posturing?”

    Because this is a wearisome and inane political blog?

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