“You’ve shown your cards and you’ve completely lost the respect of the commenters who used to trust you”

uh oh — losing the respect of spineless hypocrites, im sure she’ll lose many nights sleep over that one!

in regards to where michael comes from, what relevance does that have to anything? it seems that in arguments you are so clearly losing, you’re very quick to try to turn it around to pointless irrelevant issues like that, or a name.

ladybird, keep writing. it is insightful and genuine, and people on the other side of the world trying to tell you how to feel and what reality is are morons. i appreciate the honesty in your blog.

They’ll never lie to you Michael. Hahahahahaha!

Um … what country did you say you were from?

Oh, riiiiiight.

“Cuba.”

Sure. Whatever you say.

*

If you want to have a real laugh-riot with Michael, just ask him what country he lives in.

And believe me, it isn’t Cuba. Heh heh. Let him try out his Freshman-level Spanish on you for kicks. It’s a hoot. Hey, Michael, was that “por” or “para”? Dimwit.

Michael hates Americans, but refuses to say what country he lives in.

Convenient, isn’t it, Michael?

*

Do you have a threshold for the number of people that have to be killed before you will admit that it is genocide? Or does none of that matter unless you can blame it on the US.

Michael, just how much do you value the lives of people who live under brutal dictatorships? It seems to me you have some sort of psycopathic need to use them. You stand on their backs, as if their remains were a mere soapbox whose only purpose is to provide you with a platform from which to bark your hatred at the US.

And by the way, the first figure estimating the number of dead in Iraq I ever read was 500,000, and it came from one of many Iraqi human rights groups who had been asking for outside intervention to help in bringing down the regime. Did they over estimate in order to strengthen their case? Maybe they did. It will likely take years before experts come to an agreement on the number of people who actually were killed by that regime and its policies.

But again, you seem to imply that there is some sort of “acceptable” level when it comes to a genocide body count. Is there any case of genocide in the world, past or present, that would have motivated you to take action against it?

I suspect you would prefer the status quo, no matter where the slaughter is taking place, as long as you can twist it to your own sick purposes. To me, that makes you the fascist and you are hardly the one to go around accusing others of being a Goebbels. If I’m wrong, then by what criteria, if any, would you think action to end a genocide is justified?

PM admits graves claim ‘untrue’

Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor
Sunday July 18, 2004
The Observer

Downing Street has admitted to The Observer that repeated claims by Tony Blair that ‘400,000 bodies had been found in Iraqi mass graves’ is untrue, and only about 5,000 corpses have so far been uncovered.
The claims by Blair in November and December of last year, were given widespread credence, quoted by MPs and widely published, including in the introduction to a US government pamphlet on Iraq’s mass graves.In that publication — Iraq’s Legacy of Terror: Mass Graves produced by USAID, the US government aid distribution agency, Blair is quoted from 20 November last year: ‘We’ve already discovered, just so far, the remains of 400,000 people in mass graves.’

On 14 December Blair repeated the claim in a statement issued by Downing Street in response to the arrest of Saddam Hussein and posted on the Labour party website that: ‘The remains of 400,000 human beings [have] already [been] found in mass graves.’

The admission that the figure has been hugely inflated follows a week in which Blair accepted responsibility for charges in the Butler report over the way in which Downing Street pushed intelligence reports ‘to the outer limits’ in the case for the threat posed by Iraq.

Downing Street’s admission comes amid growing questions over precisely how many perished under Saddam’s three decades of terror, and the location of the bodies of the dead.

The Baathist regime was responsible for massive human rights abuses and murder on a large scale — not least in well-documented campaigns including the gassing of Halabja, the al-Anfal campaign against Kurdish villages and the brutal repression of the Shia uprising — but serious questions are now emerging about the scale of Saddam Hussein’s murders.