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From: Phat Bytestard on 12 Aug 2006 23:24 On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:16:17 +0000 (UTC), kensmith(a)green.rahul.net (Ken Smith) Gave us: >The dirt starts eating up your signal before you get to a GHz. That must be why nothing passes through your head.
From: Phat Bytestard on 12 Aug 2006 23:26 On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:21:41 -0700, John Larkin <jjlarkin(a)highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> Gave us: >He killed roughly 3e6 people in 15 or 20 years. Do the math. Saddam was killing people from the moment he was released from prison in 1969 to the moment we put him back in one.
From: Phat Bytestard on 12 Aug 2006 23:56 On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 01:40:02 GMT, joseph2k <quiettechblue(a)yahoo.com> Gave us: >reply interstitial Top posting Usenet retard!
From: Reg Edwards on 13 Aug 2006 04:26 "Phat Bytestard" wrote > Saddam was killing people from the moment he was released from prison > in 1969 to the moment we put him back in one. ===================================== Saddam was doing his best for his country.
From: bill.sloman on 13 Aug 2006 04:51
Phat Bytestard wrote: > On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 01:10:41 +0100, Eeyore > <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> Gave us: > > > > >John Fields wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 16:06:56 +0100, Eeyore > >> <rabbitsfriendsandrelations(a)REMOVETHIS.hotmail.com> wrote: > >> > >> > >> >John Woodgate wrote: > >> > > >> >> In message <1154865648.931183.173690(a)i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, > >> >> dated Sun, 6 Aug 2006, bill.sloman(a)ieee.org writes > >> >> > >> >> >As was pointed out before you invaded Irak, the three-way division of > >> >> >Irak into Kurds, Sunnis and Shiites makes it impossible to construct a > >> >> >stable government. > >> >> > >> >> The *government* was reasonably stable before Saddam, and, of course, > >> >> during his reign of oppression and genocide. Various sectors of the > >> >> population experienced bad things; such was the price of 'stability'. > >> > > >> >Overall it seems that the price under Saddam was less than the price under the > >> >coalition. > >> > >> --- > >> I think the cost in innocent Human lives under Saddam Hussein was > >> greater than the cost after his deposition. > > > >It depends entirely how you choose to do the accounting. > > Right. Saddam torturing and murdering hundreds and then burying them > in one of hundreds of mass graves he created. > > Sure, bub. Whereas killing people with laser-guided bombs, TOW missiles and artillery shells is utterly blameless. I know this is wasted on the Phat Bytestard, who doesn't seem to have a quantitative bone in his body, but the nukmber of people killed is of more fundamental interest than the way they were killed, and a contribution that hasn't dug out some numbers (like this posting) doesn't get the debate and further forward. -- Bill Sloman, Nijmegen |