do you think the writer of this article has his numbers all wrong?

Question

follow up question: what do you think about his viewpoint that it is up to each individual to decide between liberty and death?

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/16/better_saddam_than_dead.php

Answer 1

Actually those numbers are a little conservative compared to some of the numbers I've seen... but the quote that says it all is this one.

"I imagine that hardheaded advocates of the war will say that such is the price of liberty, that eggs must be broken. Yet here's the rub: The Iraqi people did not decide that such a cost was worth bearing. They had it imposed upon them"

We decided FOR them if it was liberty or death.....

Answer 2

I find the article to be a liberal slant again full of supposition give the exact facts not a line like "may well be more than 100,000" or "resulted in about 30,000 Shiite deaths" better still is this "They may not have fancied living in lands without freedoms, but they believed it was preferable to reside under repression than to die trying to topple tyranny" Why not go out and ask a person who lived under the former regime or tyrant which they prefer. Nobody said FREEDOM was free there is a cost to everything worth having. His article is leading the reader into believing that all these "deaths" are at the hands of George Bush and the American troops, how about the insurgents who want control over the region. Those who want to suppress freedoms. The guy needs to do more in the way of research, get the facts ALL the facts.

If that many people believe that just going along with the flow and live and let live is the way the there would never have been a United States of America - We would still be a split up version a Europe. Britain, Spain, France - and Mexico. There wouldn't have been an end to WWI or WWII because we wouldn't have been around to fight, the world would be a very different place.