Or..Helen Thomas. Or something.

Did you go to that link?

402 Murders in LA county 2006.

Of course, you can take history’s greatest mass murderer, leftist Mao, and come up with a cherry-picked period where he did not murder all that many. Apples to apples is Saddam’s reign versus post Saddam. The post Saddam RATE is roughly four times lower.

And I hate to tell you boys this, if you are honest and are able to do the math, go to the LA COunty Coroners site and you will find that there were/are more violent deaths of US citizens in Los Angeles County than Iraq (not just Baghdad).

Perspective is a troublin’ thang.

As long as Baghdad is safer than Los Angeles, everything will be fine and dandy.

Oh, now don’t be coy. You know who I mean. The Butcher of Brown People.

Ich bin ein Heathen. Oh, so am I, but I find the story and the bible itself quite fascinating. Dave Plotz does a good job reading it and blogging on it so we don’t have to. That’s who I was quoting.

And so, you’re OK with the whole “We’re not as bad as that guy, but not necessarily better” theme, yes?
Got it. Way to go.

What demented individual?

And quoting scripture means zilch to me. Ich bin ein Heathen.

Saddam 1.2M in 27 years= roughly 120 day. Post Saddam = roughly 56,000 in 5 years = roughly 30 day. Numbers can vary a little but order of magnitude difference is way too great.

On this particular issue, the world owes a debt of gratitude to Pres Bush and the R and D congressmen who authorized war.

Dugger, you should read this. From the Book of Amos.

Chapter 3
The Lord strikes the same theme in the opening verses of Chapter 3, telling the Israelites that because they were the only people He “singled out” for His love, He will “call you to account for all your iniquities.” When you stop to think about it, this strikes a fatal blow to the “I’m not as bad as he is” school of morality, which holds that you can claim the moral high ground simply by being a smidgen less awful than your neighbor. That doesn’t work for God. He’s an absolutist. So what if the Ammonites and Edomites are worshipping statues and slaughtering babies? That has nothing to do with you. God’s covenant means you have to be righteous all the time, that He’s always watching you, so you better be better than the rest.

Whoops, there goes your argument.

But the net is less killed than under Saddam – so none on the doorstep. So Bush and the Rs and Ds saved lives – net. But I know – saving thousands of brown-skined lives is not as important if it was done via Republican leadership.

That’s a fair and reasonable compromise Dugger. All the brown skinned people that were saved by the invasion can be attributed to the senate and the British and Bush. All the people killed can be laid at Bush’s door for fucking it up.

Kind of like the US troops that have mostly moved out of the northern areas where Iraqi security forces have taken over responsibility. (Can anyone say Kurdistan?)

Seems like the plan has worked in some parts of Iraq.

Something else interesting in Blairs plans for withdrawl. There are a lot of conditions that have to be met for the plan to be put into action. Sounds pretty familiar.