I know these are not Americans thinking they are not tied for the lead as the biggest mass murdering nation , with despotic murdering leaders like Johnson, Nixon, Reagan, Truman, Jackson, McKinley, Wilson, Colin Powell.
"Lets punish Saddam Hussein by killing a few million Iraqi children. Yea, that's democracy American style.
CB
>>> Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> 05/01/00 05:47PM >>>
Carl Remick wrote:
> I'd say that line is beat easily by his ultimate thigh-slapper, "One death
> is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic."
I believe the version of this coined by someone in this country was, "One death is a tragedy, 10,000 is a problem in sanitation." Variations pop up all over. Anyone know of any dependable ascriptions?
Around 90 years ago, to the New York Times 3 deaths (by lynching in the south) was neither a statistic nor a tragedy but an occasion for editorial humor.
Carrol