Letters to the Editor
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Lefty Messenger
Gary Kariya is part of the left-wing message machine that is in full election year mode. He is cherry-picking his facts, as usual, such as "16% of the Iraqi population is either dead, displaced or a refugee" and that the entire country is destroyed (by Bush, of course, no responsibility assigned to al-Qaida, of course). Looking into the recent past, I would say that 95% of Germans were in the same boat as Iraqis in 1945 and that country resurrected itself quite nicely. Japan was nuked in 1945, all of its cities were leveled, yet they were economic powerhouses by 1960. Vietnam lost almost 10% of its total population between 1960-75. Korea was flattened in 1950-53. France lost 4% of its male population in WWI.
Whether 650,000 dead Iraqis is right or not, who knows, that's 500 per day, everyday, since 2003. Seems high based on news reports.
My point is that GK never puts out anything that is really useful.