<div id="RTEContent">Phil Nisbet <pcnisbet1@hotmail.com> wrote:<br> <br> > Of the people on your list, which of them had ordered the killing of in<br> > excess of half a million people?<br> <br> What source do you have for suggesting Saddam ordered 500,000 killed? According to this source, the number is around 189,000:<br> http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB14.1C.GIF<br> <br> To answer your question, the person on my list with a comparable number:<br> <br> Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir of Sudan, over 180,000 killed in Darfur.<br> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4349063.stm<br> <br> Far exceeding this number:<br> <br> Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il of North Korea, around 1,663,000 people killed between 1948 and 1987.<br> http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DBG.TAB1.2.GIF<br> <br> So, why was Iraq invaded, and not Sudan or North Korea?<br> <br> Has the criterion for invasion now been changed from being a 'mean guy' to being a dictator having killed!
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180,000 people? How about the others on my list? Are you arguing a regime can safely kill up to 180,000 people without fear of invasion?<br> </div><p>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com