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From: hgp@houem.UUCP (Howard Page)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Hypocrisy
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 20:58:34 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 20:58:34 1984
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>> 
>> 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
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