A statistical abstract of the absurd notion that we are somehow threatened by people with plastic explosives in the soles of shoes or nitroglycerin in shampoo bottles:
- Number of airline hijackings, Europe and North America, during 1970’s: 31
- Number of deaths resulting from said hijackings: 29
- Number of airline hijackings, Europe and North America, during 1980’s: 13
- Number of deaths resulting from said hijackings: 61
- Number of airline hijackings, Europe and North America, during 1990’s: 6
- Number of deaths resulting from said hijackings: 0
- Number of airline hijackings, Europe and North America, during 2000’s: 7
- Number of deaths resulting from said hijackings: 2,973
- International terrorist attacks**, 1970’s: 920 (deaths: 287)
- International terrorist attacks, 1980’s: 1,219 (deaths: 990)
- International terrorist attacks, 1990’s: 626 (deaths: 367)
- International terrorist attacks, 2000’s: 188 (deaths: 3,303)
- Number of Vietnamese war casualties, Vietnamese side (Government of Vietnam): 3,100,000
- Number of children starved to death by Bill Clinton in 1990s (UNICEF): 500,000
- Number of civilian casualties in Iraq since U.S. invasion, March, 2003:
- Iraq Body Count: 94,000-102,574
- Johns Hopkins (2006): 655,000
- ORB (Opinion Research Bureau of London (2007): 1.2 million
- United States Government (Washington) DKDC*
- Number of Jews in the world (Jewish People Policy Planning Institute): 13.2 million
- Number of Jews that will survive in end times (Revelations): 144,000
- Number of Jews that Jesus intends to kill if the end of the world is today: 13,056,000
- Number of Jews killed in Holocaust: 6,000,000
- High end estimates of dead in U.S. attacks on Vietnam and Iraq (sanctions and war): 4,800,000
Summary: The U.S. is getting there, approaching Holocaust numbers, but in the end, Jesus is the best damned killer of all.
*Doesn’t know, doesn’t care
**U.S. defines a “terrorist” attack as an act of violence committed against civilians by a non-military person or group, thereby exempting state-sponsored terrorism (its own activities) from consideration. So, for instance, during the 1980’s, 180 “terrorist” attacks in Colombia were actually insurgent attacks on a U.S.-owned oil pipeline that is at the center of that country’s civil war. U.S. acts of retaliation (“counterinsurgency”), also part of that war, are not considered.
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What, no credit for Bosnia and Serbia under (bombs-away) Clinton?
Could this explain why Pakistan with its target-rich population of 181 million has been added to the hit list? Drones won’t get it done, but one last run at it with the B-52s might do the trick. Limiting the “war” to Afghanistan, however, with it’s meager 28 million, and such low-density by comparison, might not produce the impressive numbers the CIA and Pentagon are looking for. Historians love war presidents and their military brass. Bush III. Has kind of a Roman or Egyptian Empire ring to it don’t you think?
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You have no idea of how many countries I left off that list … if it isn’t the U.S. directly, it is often U.S.- sponsored.
For instance, in the 1960’s, the U.S. was tied up militarily in Southeast Asia, but a similar cleansing operation was undertaken in Indonesia, done with U.S. support and U.S.-supplied weapons, and the CIA even supplied names. It is estimated that Sukarno killed 500,000 to one million Indonesians during that time. All of them bad guys, of course.
Currently, we have active counterinsurgencies going in Colombia and Afghanistan, and are cleaning up after the minor holocaust in Iraq. U.S. troops are menacing the borders of Venezuela from the Colombian side. I’m sure there is much, much more going on than this, for instance, I strongly suspect U.S. covert involvement in Sudan.
All in a day’s work for the most efficient killing machine on the planet.
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No mention of Mao or Stalin?
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Toss them in! Make it a party!
You choose: Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy
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