Re: 100,000,000 Killed

Chom Noamsky wrote:

> "
> >> More than one hundred million is the approximate combined number of
> >> fallen
> >> soldiers from both world wars. The vast majority were caucasian
males.
> >> Neither war directly threatened North America.
> >
> > Where do you get the 100 million figure. There were 8.5 million
soldiers
> > killed in WW I and  almost 6 million killed in WW II. Of those, there
were
> > 1,7
> > million Japanese and 3.5 million Chinese casualties.  The war between
> > China
> > and Japan started a few years before war broke out in Europe and it
was
> > another 2 years before Japan attacked the US.
> >
> > As for North Americans, they suffered among the lowest number of
> > casualties.
>
> There were 25 million soldiers killed in WWII and 10 million in WWI. 
The
> 100 million figure includes civilian casualties.  Civilian casualties
from
> both world wars exceed the number of military casualties by a wide
margin

Meldon said "fallen soldiers", not civilians and then claims that the vast
majority were caucasion men. Japan invaded China years before WW II broke
out in
Europe, and another two years before the US entered the war as a result of
the
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  Between the Japanese and Chinese, both
non
caucasion to the best of my recollection, there were more than 5 million
soldiers killed. He completely disregarded the Korean War, which saw a
total of
329,000 North Koreans and Chinese  killed in a war started by North Korea.
He
also neglected the Vietnamese war, started by the NV which led to more
than 1.1
million NV soldiers killed. He neglected the Iran-Iraq war, a
non-caucasion war
with more than 1 million soldiers killed. And let's not forget the
numerous and
ongoing wars in Africa.

Look at China alone..... more than 1 million battle deaths in the civil
war, 2-5
million killed in the rural purges,  20-43 million killed in the Great
Leap
Forward, 2-7 million killed in the Cultural Revolution, 20 million deaths
in the
labour camps and another 1 million or so in Tibet. There have been
somewhere
between 44.5 - 72 million people killed in Chinese internal conflicts
since the
end of WW II, more than all those killed in WW I and 11 combined, and
caucasions
were not involved.