From: Joey Gibson <joey@...>
Date: 2004-11-03T07:03:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] US Presidential Election

On 11/2/2004 12:20, Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Nov 2004, Lothar Scholz wrote:
> 
>> This week there was a tiny message in many major newsmagazines that the
>> death toll among Iraq civilians reached 100000. Interesting that most US
>> americans don't notice that and only talk about there own soldiers.
> 
> 
> where i live, boulder colorado, this is not the case.  it __is__ the 
> case that
> most americans with voices (eg. media, politicians) speak mostly of 
> their own.
> as is the case in most things, a few bad ones ruin it for the rest.  
> many of
> us are aware that we, as americans, are always living on the backs of the
> world no matter who is in office or what wars are being waged.  our 
> lifstyle
> and sense of entitlement simply cannot be maintained any other way.

This goes a long way to refuting the "100,000 dead civilians" claim
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:sYqpmdo_P-wJ:www.chicagoboyz.net/archives/002543.html+shannon+love+100,000&hl=en

It's the Google cached version of the original posting. I guess her 
bandwidth got eaten up...

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