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William Blum's Occasional Anti-Empire Report - some sane analysis
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I didn't see anything new or shocking in those bullet points. I'd venture to say that most people know about these things, even if they don't reach the same conclusions from that data as the author. Also, I counted up the list of "50 assassinated people." Even though Saddam Hussein is listed twice, there's still only 40 people on that list. And Saddam himself was tried and convicted and executed by an Iraqi court, which despite the questionable nature of those proceedings, can hardly be called an assassination.

Unless you consider a court imposed death penalty an "assassination," in which case the author has seriously underrepresented those numbers. (The death penalty info.org site claims 1,422 just since 1976.)
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William Blum's Occasional Anti-Empire Report - some sane analysis - by Drew Phipps - 22-12-2015, 02:35 PM

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