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DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER

DEATH BY GOVERNMENT: GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER
All told, governments killed more than 262 million people in the 20th century outside of wars, according to University of Hawaii political science professor R.J. Rummel. Just to give perspective on this incredible murder by government, if all these bodies were laid head to toe, with the average height being 5', then they would circle the earth ten times. Also, this democide murdered 6 times more people than died in combat in all the foreign and internal wars of the century. Finally, given popular estimates of the dead in a major nuclear war, this total democide is as though such a war did occur, but with its dead spread over a century

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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Obama Pressed to Clarify Exit Plan in Libya War NATO Plans for Three Months - Then What?


Obama Pressed to Clarify Exit Plan in Libya War

NATO Plans for Three Months - Then What?

by Jason Ditz, March 25, 2011
There is already considerable opposition to the Obama Administration’s war in Libya, fueled mainly by his lack of goals and the complete lack of debate before the war began. With the first week of conflict coming to an end, President Obama is now under pressure to define the exit plan.
NATO, which has assumed leadershipof the campaign as of Friday, says they are planning for a 90 day mission. What comes after that is anyone’s guess, and the administration hasn’t been clear at all on what it intends will happen.
Indeed, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates insisted earlier in the week thatthere is no time limit for the war. British Armed Forces Minister Nick Harvey said there is no exit strategy in place. The 90 day mission, in this context, seems extremely over-optimistic.
Rather the administration appears to have designs on keeping the no-fly zone in place more or less permanently, in the same style of the Iraq no-fly zone before the 2003 invasion. In Libya, as well, the closest thing the administration has to an end-game plan seems to be permanent escalation until the situation magically resolves itself.

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