more death tolls

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Wed Nov 6 13:47:14 PST 2002


Apparently, my reply to Steve was ambiguous (either that, or he intentionally misread me so that he could suggest that I'm a naive imperialist dupe). Here goes:

Steve wrote:
> --maybe Dennis P. will entertain us next with those ghoulish stories the
> cia
> planted in the us media about the soviets making toy shaped bombs in
> afghanistan to blow up little children and terrorise rural peasants!
that's
> always a fun story that is thrown around when expressing our horror at the
> soviet intervention in afghanistan...

And I wrote the following not to show that I believe that Soviets did indeed make toy shaped bombs, but rather to challenge Steve to back up his bluster by citing a credible source contrary to the 1.3 million+ figure arrived at by others:


> Maybe you'll entertain us by providing a contrary account backed by
equally
> (or more) credible reports. Then again, that appears to be a rather slim
> possibility...
>
> -- Luke


>



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