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From: aeb@turing.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Comment on war in three countries.
Message-ID: <230@turing.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Dec-84 21:09:11 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 10 21:09:11 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 01:42:40 EST
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> Before I hit the "U" key in for net.politics, I would like to give a
> statistic on deaths due to war in the past ten years in three countries:
> El Salvador, Afghanistan, and Cambodia.
> 1) War deaths in El Salvador in the past ten years:
> 50000
> 2) War deaths in Afghanistan in the past *six* years:
> 500000
> 3) War deaths in Cambodia in the past ten years (most were 1975-1978):
> 4000000
> Well, I guess that proves it:  Reagan is the next Hitler.

I am bewildered. What wars are you talking about? Who was fighting whom?
What has Reagan to do with this?
Or are you saying that it is hardly fair to call your friend a murderer
when he has killed only five people but you know about a maniac who has
slaughtered at least a thousand?
-- 
      Andries Brouwer -- CWI, Amsterdam -- {philabs,decvax}!mcvax!aeb