In Reply to: Saddam killed >1,000,000 of his own people. That would have posted by gsw_hoops on 2012-04-04 11:08:38

• Graph on the waning of warfare, aka why Americans are self-absorbed dumbfucks, part 1,283,220   -  buzz  2012-04-04 01:02:41 (137 views)
• Couple of points: the nature of war has changed - more army vs. army, fewer civilian  -  nomad  2012-04-04 11:43:44 (62 views)
• When I commanded Guard Post Ouellette in '89  -  slipup  2012-04-05 17:31:20 (52 views)
• Hiroshima vs targeted drone strikes?   -  buzz  2012-04-04 13:19:15 (44 views)
• Right.   -  nomad  2012-04-04 13:21:10 (31 views)
• Your last point is one I was going to make. Nuclear capabilities changed the rules, or at the very  -  BackseatGM  2012-04-04 12:03:51 (57 views)
• Also, the pay out for any decision maker (single or by committee) is almost always negative  -  The Earth Ghost  2012-04-05 09:51:31 (40 views)
• blowing up innocent Iraqis is not necessary for the above result   -  shikantaza  2012-04-04 09:32:55 (52 views)
• that's a nice, pithy comment but does it stand up?  -  DC Warrior  2012-04-04 09:50:49 (72 views)
• These counter-factuals are difficult... I think the main question we're getting at here  -  shikantaza  2012-04-04 10:27:18 (71 views)
• ^missed an important zero before   -  shikantaza  2012-04-04 11:17:12 (44 views)
• Saddam killed >1,000,000 of his own people. That would have  -  gsw_hoops  2012-04-04 11:08:38 (60 views)
• i bet none of those people are included in the graph above.  -  Chicken  2012-04-05 14:28:28 (45 views)
• I don't mean to underestimate how evil Saddam was... he deserved to go...  -  shikantaza  2012-04-04 11:15:01 (55 views)
• and for his being there at all, we were largely responsible. As with OBL, Pinochet, Noriega, Armas..   -  bongo  2012-04-04 11:44:34 (46 views)
• good point   -  shikantaza  2012-04-04 11:46:03 (42 views)
• Re: These counter-factuals are difficult... I think the main question we're getting at here  -  DC Warrior  2012-04-04 11:04:10 (57 views)
• true... scalpel > sledgehammer in that situation   -  shikantaza  2012-04-04 11:10:02 (40 views)
• Doesn't make sense. WWII was a civil war? Korean conflict in the 50s?  -  Cohan sold the Dubz!  2012-04-04 09:03:52 (58 views)
• Spain, Greece, etc. had civil wars at about the time WWII was breaking out  -  gribble the mispost master  2012-04-04 09:16:04 (61 views)
• I regards to Africa, are the large number of deaths due to genocide even included in those stats or  -  BackseatGM  2012-04-04 11:10:59 (57 views)
• those examples of yours are very different from one another in terms of orders of magnitude  -  DC Warrior  2012-04-04 11:18:30 (51 views)
• Oh, I know they're different but I just wondered if those types of deaths were included, as well as  -  BackseatGM  2012-04-04 11:56:39 (49 views)
• The Rwandan genocide is probably considered civil strife   -  shikantaza  2012-04-04 11:19:59 (35 views)
• I will agree that America has more than its fair share of self-absorbed dumbfucks,  -  Cohan sold the Dubz!  2012-04-04 10:20:29 (57 views)
• i imagine if the world had been captured by the germans there would have been even less.   -  Chicken  2012-04-04 02:23:05 (62 views)