{"id":123,"date":"2003-11-28T17:02:57","date_gmt":"2003-11-29T00:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=123"},"modified":"2003-11-28T17:02:57","modified_gmt":"2003-11-29T00:02:57","slug":"the-calculus-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"The Calculus of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Whipple is back<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Here’s a math quiz for you:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

During the 30-odd years he was in power, Saddam Hussein murdered at
\n least 300,000 of his own people. These are the ones we are finding in
\n mass graves in Iraq. Another 300,000 at least were killed in his war
\n with Iran and his two conflicts with the US. Those are bare-bones,
\n undeniable, non-speculative, minimums.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That darling arithmetic works out to no less than 20,000 people a year
\n killed by that lunatic, or about 1,700 people a month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So how many innocent people have not died as a result of the Iraq war?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I get about 13,000 so far.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thirteen thousand is about the size of a good basketball game. Perhaps
\n we can convince the Lakers to play a charity game against the Spurs,
\n say. Then we can put 13,000 Iraqi men, women and children into the
\n Staples Center, and make Michael Moore and Susan Sarandon, Tim
\n Robbins, Sean Penn, George Clooney, The Dixie Chicks, Janeane
\n Garofalo, end every single person who signed the Not in Our Name
\n petition kill those people in cold blood electrodes, acid baths or
\n shredders, to get the full effect, although the weak-stomached should
\n be allowed to merely shoot them in the back of the head.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Because that is exactly what would have happened if these people had
\n gotten their way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Whipple is back! Here’s a math quiz for you: During the 30-odd years he was in power, Saddam Hussein murdered at least 300,000 of his own people. These are the ones we are finding in mass graves in Iraq. Another 300,000 at least were killed in his war with Iran and his two conflicts … Continue reading “The Calculus of Death”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}