Re:Would Bush make a good internet entrepreneur?
by nostrademons on Thursday September 06, 2007 @11:11PM
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Well, if you're measuring absolute evil by lives lost, Bush is about 3 orders of magnitude below Hitler and Stalin...
Re:Would Bush make a good internet entrepreneur?
by rms on Thursday September 06, 2007 @11:25PM
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Hitler killed at least 10 million people with his genocide, but you could blame many of the 75 million WW2 deaths on him. Stalin killed at least 20 million, possibly closer to 45 million.
As a result of Bush's actions, at least 75,000 died in Iraq and it's 650,000 as of July 2006 if you think the statistical study done by Johns Hopkins is accurate. I haven't read their study so I can't comment on their methodology but I am sure that the 75,000 number is underreporting the deaths in Iraq.
Probably the number is somewhere in between. Let's go with 300,000 and let's say Hitler/Stalin level evil is 30,000,000 deaths. That's two orders of magnitude. It would be closer to three if you distributed the blame for the war across the entire Project for the New American Century.
Re:Would Bush make a good internet entrepreneur?
by blored on Thursday September 06, 2007 @11:47PM
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But they are still being mentioned in the same sentence, which is probably a first for any American President.
Re:Would Bush make a good internet entrepreneur?
by yamada on Thursday September 06, 2007 @11:23PM
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Ahhh ... but you're thinking of "traditional business" ... I'm thinking of a business where you don't need to make revenue and a large company buys you out because of your "strategic value".
Re:Would Bush make a good internet entrepreneur?
by rms on Thursday September 06, 2007 @11:27PM
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He could be good at that. All he'd have to do is call the Saudis and they would buy him as a personal favor.
Re:Would Bush make a good internet entrepreneur?
by asdflkj on Friday September 07, 2007 @11:03PM
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How can you buy something you already own?
His current pursuit cannot succeed, unless his real goal is to keep the America continuously involved in war to generate money for private corporations. It's just sad that American soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians are paying with their lives. On a scale of absolute evil, it puts Bush only a single order of magnitude below Hitler and Stalin.