Genocide in Iraq and Sudan Re: [lbo-talk] MPug Rats Out Yoshie To Cooper

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 5/4/06, www.leninology. blogspot.com
> Perhaps it is because of repeated
> claims that 200,000 have been killed over the last three years.
> The 200,000 figure derives from a UN report last year which said that
> 180,000 people had died since the beginning of the conflict in Darfur:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4349063.stm

If 200,000 dead constitute a genocide, no matter how they died, surely
the US war in Iraq is a genocide: "the Coalition forces could be
responsible for as many as 200,000 Iraqi civilian deaths or more" (Les
Roberts, "Do Iraqi Civilian Casualties Matter?" AlterNet. Posted
February 8, 2006, <http://www.alternet.org/story/31508/>).

The application of the term "genocide" appears to be completely
dependent on politics.

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