Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site houem.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houem!hgp From: hgp@houem.UUCP (Howard Page) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Hypocrisy Message-ID: <259@houem.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 20:58:34 EDT Article-I.D.: houem.259 Posted: Tue Jun 5 20:58:34 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 6-Jun-84 07:10:29 EDT References: <1008@ihuxm.UUCP>, <671@ut-ngp.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 31 >> >> Yeah, I know of some you missed: >> >> Johnson >> Nixon 2 million Vietnamese, 50,000 Americans >> >> Reagan 40,000 Salvadoran victims of death squads >> that are part of government forces armed >> and trained by the Reagan regime. >This only underscores the original point. The numbers here add up to about >2,100,000. Stalin killed that many (or so) in the Ukraine (sp) ALONE. > >Face it, the WORST atrocities that can POSSIBLY be blamed on the U.S. >(which seems to be a lot - at least by people whose vested interests are >in such things) pale in comparasion to those perpetrated by the >Communist regiemes of the 20th century. >Oh yes, I do believe there have been several hundred thousand killed >more or less directly by the Soviets in Afghanistan (I don't have the >real numbers on the top of my head). It's not that I don't disagree with the numbers, but is a murderer who kills one person simply half as bad as a murderer who kils two ? Answer only with a simple YES or NO! :-) H.G. Page ..!ihnp4!houem!hgp