Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site turing.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!turing!aeb 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 Article-I.D.: turing.230 Posted: Mon Dec 10 21:09:11 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 13-Dec-84 01:42:40 EST References: <178@talcott.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 18 Apparently-To: rnews@mcvax.LOCAL > 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