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Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:34:33 +0000

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By: opit

opit — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:13:20 +0000

The Mighty Wurlitzer is working overtime on this one. I got tired of the false sympathy for ‘oppressed Iranians’ from the nation which had been talking nuclear attack not too long ago really fast. I smelled a rat … but there was more than one.
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/06/reality-check-iran.html
Clipped some articles for edification.

By: Brad Jacobson

Brad Jacobson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:22:35 +0000

“Regarding the genocidal scale, the ORB neglects to give us the hard numbers of Iraqi/Iraqi religious murders, and fails to give us hard numbers on how many innocent Iraqi’s were killed directly by US and or coalition troops.”

Jeff, the ORB study is framed in Pandora’s Box kind of way, i.e., the US invasion of Iraq led to the deaths of over 1 million Iraqis. It would be great to have the breakdown you’re referring to but I don’t think its absence invalidates the ORB study.

“They also should take into context of exactly how many Iraqis were killed by Saddam Hussein, if one could get an accurate number.”

If you’re referring to Iraqis killed by Saddam Hussein during his reign, most estimates tend to be around 200,000 over a 24-year period. Certainly a horrific toll but dwarfed by the number of deaths triggered by the US invasion.

By: jeff watson

jeff watson — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:11:40 +0000

Regarding the genocidal scale, the ORB neglects to give us the hard numbers of Iraqi/Iraqi religious murders, and fails to give us hard numbers on how many innocent Iraqi’s were killed directly by US and or coalition troops. They also should take into context of exactly how many Iraqis were killed by Saddam Hussein, if one could get an accurate number.