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Stalin was responsible for something called the holodomor that deliberately starved about as many Ukrainians to death as Hitler killed in the camps yet it has never been publicized anywhere near as much as the holocaust.
It wasn't as widely known as Hitler's evils, but it should be part of a basic historical understanding that should be somewhat known. The educational system appears to be failing a lot of people.
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26% is a pretty enormous number to get a really simple and fundamental fact wrong.
Stalin had a couple of million citizens shot, purposely starved to death 3M+ in just 2 years, and all of that was before the Great Terror and WWII.
That's more than two orders of magnitude larger than all military and civilian deaths on all sides combined in the Iraq War. Stalin purposely starved to death 100x more people (by taking all their grain and cutting off their borders for 2 years) in 2 years than died in the Iraq War. He executed 10x as many people just during the Great Terror than died in the Iraq War from all causes.
26% is an enormous number to have get that wrong.
What country do you live in? I can ask Gen Xer's and even Boomers the same question and STILL get the same number who believe that Bush had more people killed than Stalin.
Perhaps you are unaware that the Dumbing Down of America has been going on for decades. Millenials are actually more informed on a variety of topics, not the least of which is politics, than both of the previous generations listed.
Afghanistan was harboring terrorist, and Saddam was by definition a war criminal himself. Bush was justified even if he lied (was lied to)about the reasoning.
No he wasn't justified, not for a minute. This country cannot invade another sovereign nation based on a lie.
How is that any different than Hitler saying ethnic Germans were being killed along the Polish border when he invaded that country in 1939? Was Hitler justified in invading Poland?
Apparently you believe that the rules of engagement and the justification for full scale war don't apply to the United States.
Funny how lefty liberals only remember the parts of history that fit there agenda.
bill
You are comparing apples to oranges with this line of rational.in 1998 Bill sent air power to Iraq and neutralized any conceivable threat Saddam posed, end of story.in 2003 George Bush knowing Saddam had no more WMD and a no fly zone covering Iraq decided to invade the country with 100000+ American troops culminating in a war that lasted 10 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
What do you expect from the left? How many years now has Seattle glorified another communist, Lenin, by erecting a statue of him there in Fremont? A lot of liberals are commies, although they've never lived in a communist society so have no idea just how much it's going to suck for them. Of course they're going to lie and say Bush killed more than Stalin.
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Those who claim that Bush did this or Bush did that are not being honest.
You crack me up sometimes, you really do. Let's not pretend we're the paragon of honesty we think we are when we make blanket assumptions like I've bolded about a very diverse group of individuals, OK?
Stalin was responsible for something called the holodomor that deliberately starved about as many Ukrainians to death as Hitler killed in the camps yet it has never been publicized anywhere near as much as the holocaust.
The first time I saw it publicized was a documentary done in Canada in 1985 "Harvest of Despair"
which was aired on PBS. The number of deaths range from 3-7+ million. It was a very difficult
film to watch. Film-Harvest of Despair
If people knew a smidgen of what History has to teach, could you imagine how much better off we would be as a nation.
Socialism, communism, is never forever.
Hell, Stalins daughter died while living in the USA after WW2..
Many other world leaders of despicable backgrounds have family here...
What country do you live in? I can ask Gen Xer's and even Boomers the same question and STILL get the same number who believe that Bush had more people killed than Stalin.
Perhaps you are unaware that the Dumbing Down of America has been going on for decades. Millenials are actually more informed on a variety of topics, not the least of which is politics, than both of the previous generations listed.
You are comparing apples to oranges with this line of rational.in 1998 Bill sent air power to Iraq and neutralized any conceivable threat Saddam posed, end of story.in 2003 George Bush knowing Saddam had no more WMD and a no fly zone covering Iraq decided to invade the country with 100000+ American troops culminating in a war that lasted 10 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War
Boots on ground knew better than what Blix told the UN.. One day the truth will come out about WMD's in Iraq. Until then, believe a source such as Wikipedia..
And, real about the other reasons we went, plenty of other UN sanction violations.
Soon, Hillary will go after Iran and proceed to get us into WW3 in a more conventional way.. Stage is set.
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