Re: 100,000,000 Killed

"Dave Smith" <adavid.smith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:47BCC86D.FDB85F01@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.

I'm not an historian or an expert in warfare statistics but I wonder why
six
million is burned into my conscious like a woodburning tool on birch while
the tragedy of WWII casualties in the hundreds of millions I had to
research.



>
> 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.
>
>
>

I'm simply pointing out the number of allies, mostly caucasian who died
during the two world wars . We can certainly examine caucasian mortality
in
other wars if you wish but it is hardly necessary. One hundred million is
enough to make the point.