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===Wikipedia’s Conspiracy Theories===

===Wikipedia’s Conspiracy Theories===

#Wikipedia falsely claims that 3 to 4 million Vietnamese and 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians and Laotians died in the [[Vietnam War]]<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War</ref>.  These estimates are based on official North Vietnamese Communist propaganda<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20071222122211/http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950404/04040331.htm</ref>, and they are ''not'' supported by any demographic estimates or studies.  One user attempted on August 23, 2010 to include other sources, but was repeatedly censored.  On the talk page, he responded:  "I'm not sure what there is here to discuss. I simply cited a demographic estimate on the war casualties that the AP called the most detailed demographic study. There's absolutely no reason why it cannot be included in the article. Obviously, some don't like the estimate because they want to believe in a higher one. It's worth noting that while my source is a demographic survey; the one you have at present is a link to an assertion on a webpage, without any study backing it up. I kept that estimate intact; I simply included another.  No demographic study ever conducted has estimated a death toll as high as 3, 4, or even 5 million. Right now I'm looking at photos of peace activists with signs reading "Over 600,000 Vietnamese Dead!" No house to house survey endorsed such findings, no medical journal. R.J. Rummel puts the total as 1.2 million dead-- South and North Vietnamese, and Laotians and Cambodians.  Look at the Cambodian civil war: Bannister and Johnson estimated the death toll from the war to be around 275,000. Sampson, too, believed that the toll from the war was overestimated. He suggested that civilian deaths "could be numbered in tens of thousands, but not more," and also noted that military attachés estimated the size of each army to be between 100,000 and 150,000. One survey said 230,000 was "the highest mortality we could justify." No survey ever conducted has gotten anywhere near 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians and Laotians killed.  The fact remains that the estimates currently cited are official figures from the Vietnamese government."  Although Wikipedia's source is indeed a link to another “encyclopedia website” explicitly citing the official Communist media; an editor responded, robotically:  "These numbers are supported," while another added "maybe the Communists are telling the truth this time."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vietnam_War#Stats</ref>  A third commenter mentioned the US kill ratio and implied that all of the alleged 4 to 5 million deaths could be blamed squarely on the United States alone,<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vietnam_War#Stats</ref> even though US military actions were responsible for less than 1% of Indochinese casualties.<ref>http://www.markhumphrys.com/communism.asia.html#vietnam</ref><ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP13.HTM</ref><ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB13.1.GIF</ref>  Notably, Wikipedia's own casualty breakdown contradicts the number cited for Laos.  Wikipedia not only regurgitates official Communist propaganda, it often backs it up with wholly arbitrary assertions from extreme left-wing propagandists and genocide deniers like [[Noam Chomsky]] (who denied the Cambodian genocide) and Gareth Porter (condemned by a Democratic Congressman for explicitly expressing support and admiration for the Khmer Rouge; author of ''The Myth of the Bloodbath'').  Conservapedia gives you the truth straight up:  "The war exacted a huge human cost, including an estimated one to two million North and South Vietnamese,<ref>http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm</ref> 100,000 to 300,000 Cambodians<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> and 30-50,000 Laotians.<ref>http://www.vietnamgear.com/casualties.aspx</ref>  The "most comprehensive demographic survey" ever conducted on casualties during the war, as endorsed by the Associated Press, estimated that nearly one million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians were killed throughout the two decades of conflict.<ref>Associated Press, April 3, 1995; Charles Hirschman et al., “Vietnamese Casualties During the American War: A New Estimate,” Population and Development Review, December 1995</ref>  R.J. Rummel puts the total at 1.2 million Indochinese killed on all sides.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/WSJ.ART.HTM</ref>"

#Wikipedia falsely claims that 3 to 4 million Vietnamese and 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians and Laotians died in the [[Vietnam War]]<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War</ref>.  These estimates are based on official North Vietnamese Communist propaganda<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20071222122211/http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1995/vp950404/04040331.htm</ref>, and they are ''not'' supported by any demographic estimates or studies.  One user attempted on August 23, 2010 to include other sources, but was repeatedly censored.  On the talk page, he responded:  "I'm not sure what there is here to discuss. I simply cited a demographic estimate on the war casualties that the AP called the most detailed demographic study. There's absolutely no reason why it cannot be included in the article. Obviously, some don't like the estimate because they want to believe in a higher one. It's worth noting that while my source is a demographic survey; the one you have at present is a link to an assertion on a webpage, without any study backing it up. I kept that estimate intact; I simply included another.  No demographic study ever conducted has estimated a death toll as high as 3, 4, or even 5 million. Right now I'm looking at photos of peace activists with signs reading "Over 600,000 Vietnamese Dead!" No house to house survey endorsed such findings, no medical journal. R.J. Rummel puts the total as 1.2 million dead-- South and North Vietnamese, and Laotians and Cambodians.  Look at the Cambodian civil war: Bannister and Johnson estimated the death toll from the war to be around 275,000. Sampson, too, believed that the toll from the war was overestimated. He suggested that civilian deaths "could be numbered in tens of thousands, but not more," and also noted that military attachés estimated the size of each army to be between 100,000 and 150,000. One survey said 230,000 was "the highest mortality we could justify." No survey ever conducted has gotten anywhere near 1.5 to 2 million Cambodians and Laotians killed.  The fact remains that the estimates currently cited are official figures from the Vietnamese government."  Although Wikipedia's source is indeed a link to another “encyclopedia website” citing the official Communist figures; an editor responded, robotically:  "These numbers are supported," while another added "maybe the Communists are telling the truth this time."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vietnam_War#Stats</ref>  A third commenter mentioned the US kill ratio and implied that all of the alleged 4 to 5 million deaths could be blamed squarely on the United States alone,<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vietnam_War#Stats</ref> even though US military actions were responsible for less than 1% of Indochinese casualties.<ref>http://www.markhumphrys.com/communism.asia.html#vietnam</ref><ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP13.HTM</ref><ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB13.1.GIF</ref>  Notably, Wikipedia's own casualty breakdown contradicts the number cited for Laos.  Wikipedia not only regurgitates official Communist propaganda, it often backs it up with wholly arbitrary assertions from extreme left-wing propagandists and genocide deniers like [[Noam Chomsky]] (who denied the Cambodian genocide) and Gareth Porter (condemned by a Democratic Congressman for explicitly expressing support and admiration for the Khmer Rouge; author of ''The Myth of the Bloodbath'').  Conservapedia gives you the truth straight up:  "The war exacted a huge human cost, including an estimated one to two million North and South Vietnamese,<ref>http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/modules/vietnam/index.cfm</ref> 100,000 to 300,000 Cambodians<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref> and 30-50,000 Laotians.<ref>http://www.vietnamgear.com/casualties.aspx</ref>  The "most comprehensive demographic survey" ever conducted on casualties during the war, as endorsed by the Associated Press, estimated that nearly one million Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians were killed throughout the two decades of conflict.<ref>Associated Press, April 3, 1995; Charles Hirschman et al., “Vietnamese Casualties During the American War: A New Estimate,” Population and Development Review, December 1995</ref>  R.J. Rummel puts the total at 1.2 million Indochinese killed on all sides.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/WSJ.ART.HTM</ref>"

#Wikipedia minimizes the atrocities of the [[Khmer Rouge]].  It explicitly states that the Khmer Rouge killed "over 740,000 Cambodians" on its page about the Khmer Rouge<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Crimes_against_humanity</ref> and uncritically regurgitates the legitimacy of that so-called "estimate".  Further, it openly declares that more people may have died in the Cambodian civil war than the subsequent genocide,<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War</ref> even though there is no actual study cited to support the assertion.  Indeed, their "estimates" are simply claims repeated by word of mouth uncritically and in the absence of evidence (though they can always find a "source" to cite in support of them); they appear to have been first promulgated ''by'' the Khmer Rouge themselves, along with their supporters in the West.<ref>http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19770625.htm</ref>

#Wikipedia minimizes the atrocities of the [[Khmer Rouge]].  It explicitly states that the Khmer Rouge killed "over 740,000 Cambodians" on its page about the Khmer Rouge<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge#Crimes_against_humanity</ref> and uncritically regurgitates the legitimacy of that so-called "estimate".  Further, it openly declares that more people may have died in the Cambodian civil war than the subsequent genocide,<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_Civil_War</ref> even though there is no actual study cited to support the assertion.  Indeed, their "estimates" are simply claims repeated by word of mouth uncritically and in the absence of evidence (though they can always find a "source" to cite in support of them); they appear to have been first promulgated ''by'' the Khmer Rouge themselves, along with their supporters in the West.<ref>http://www.chomsky.info/articles/19770625.htm</ref>

#This is just the tip of the iceberg.  Wikipedia sinks much lower in its ideological fanaticism.  So low, in fact, as to be legitimately considered astonishing even by their own standards.  In its article on the US bombing of Cambodia, Operation Menu, it explicitly attributes everyone who died in the entire Cambodian civil war--all deaths, soldier and civilian, on all sides--to American bombing.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu</ref>  It states that:  "Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970, during the Vietnam War leading to the destruction of over 1,000 towns and villages, the displacement of 2,000,000, and the deaths of over 700,000 to 1,000,000 Cambodians."(!)  It further adds: "[US bombing] enraged the Cambodian public and helped to create a climate that allowed the Khmer Rouge to come to power."(!!)  The article even claims that the reason for the secrecy around the campaign was "[because] an aerial bombing of neutral Cambodia was a war crime."(!!!)  The estimate that US bombing killed so many people, was, in fact, apparently first promulgated ''by'' the Khmer Rouge themselves.

#This is just the tip of the iceberg.  Wikipedia sinks much lower in its ideological fanaticism.  So low, in fact, as to be legitimately considered astonishing even by their own standards.  In its article on the US bombing of Cambodia, Operation Menu, it explicitly attributes everyone who died in the entire Cambodian civil war--all deaths, soldier and civilian, on all sides--to American bombing.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Menu</ref>  It states that:  "Operation Menu was the codename of a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 until 26 May 1970, during the Vietnam War leading to the destruction of over 1,000 towns and villages, the displacement of 2,000,000, and the deaths of over 700,000 to 1,000,000 Cambodians."(!)  It further adds: "[US bombing] enraged the Cambodian public and helped to create a climate that allowed the Khmer Rouge to come to power."(!!)  The article even claims that the reason for the secrecy around the campaign was "[because] an aerial bombing of neutral Cambodia was a war crime."(!!!)  The estimate that US bombing killed so many people, was, in fact, apparently first promulgated ''by'' the Khmer Rouge themselves.

#Their estimates of the death toll in Communist Cambodia are plainly false for this simple reason (which is mentioned on Conservapedia):  "Investigators have uncovered and examined the remains of 1.1 million Cambodians (later raised to 1.39 million) found in mass graves near Khmer Rouge execution centers whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators to have been execution by the former Khmer Rouge regime.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref><ref>http://welcome.to/dccam</ref>  Because no ''more'' than roughly ''half'' of those killed by the Khmer Rouge were executed (the rest having died from other causes like state-created famine, the deliberate withholding of basic necessities by the state, the refusal by the state to allow foreign aid, the abolishing of medicine and hospitals by the state, systematic overwork and slave labor by the state, and brutal mistreatment by the state), the Documentation Center of Cambodia estimates that the former regime killed or otherwise caused the unnecessary deaths of, between 2 and 3 million Cambodians.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref>  A UN investigation reported 2-3 million dead, while UNICEF estimated 3 million had been killed.<ref>William Shawcross, The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience (Touchstone, 1985), p115-6</ref>  Demographic estimates went as high as 4 million killed by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>  Even the Khmer Rouge acknowledged that 2 million had been killed—though they attributed those deaths to a subsequent Vietnamese invasion.<ref>Khieu Samphan, Interview, Time, March 10, 1980</ref>  By late 1979, UN and Red Cross officials were warning that another 2.25 million Cambodians faced death by starvation due to “the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot,”<ref>New York Times, August 8, 1979.</ref><ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,912511,00.html</ref> who were saved by American and international aid."  Based on the findings of genocide investigators; the Khmer Rouge killed ''at least'' 2.8 million people in three years.  The Wikipedia article on the Khmer Rouge mentions the 1.39 million in mass graves.  However, it falsely implies without ever being explicit that these Cambodians died from ''all causes'', that many died in the civil war, and that these findings are actually consistent with the claim that Pol Pot only killed 700,000 Cambodians.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge</ref>   

#Their estimates of the death toll in Communist Cambodia are plainly false for this simple reason (which is mentioned on Conservapedia):  "Investigators have uncovered and examined the remains of 1.1 million Cambodians (later raised to 1.39 million) found in mass graves near Khmer Rouge execution centers whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators to have been execution by the former Khmer Rouge regime.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref><ref>http://welcome.to/dccam</ref>  Because no ''more'' than roughly ''half'' of those killed by the Khmer Rouge were executed (the rest having died from other causes like state-created famine, the deliberate withholding of basic necessities by the state, the refusal by the state to allow foreign aid, the abolishing of medicine and hospitals by the state, systematic overwork and slave labor by the state, and brutal mistreatment by the state), the Documentation Center of Cambodia estimates that the former regime killed or otherwise caused the unnecessary deaths of, between 2 and 3 million Cambodians.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref>  A UN investigation reported 2-3 million dead, while UNICEF estimated 3 million had been killed.<ref>William Shawcross, The Quality of Mercy: Cambodia, Holocaust, and Modern Conscience (Touchstone, 1985), p115-6</ref>  Demographic estimates went as high as 4 million killed by the Khmer Rouge from 1975 to 1978.<ref>http://www.paulbogdanor.com/chomsky/labedz.pdf</ref>  Even the Khmer Rouge acknowledged that 2 million had been killed—though they attributed those deaths to a subsequent Vietnamese invasion.<ref>Khieu Samphan, Interview, Time, March 10, 1980</ref>  By late 1979, UN and Red Cross officials were warning that another 2.25 million Cambodians faced death by starvation due to “the near destruction of Cambodian society under the regime of ousted Prime Minister Pol Pot,”<ref>New York Times, August 8, 1979.</ref><ref>http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,912511,00.html</ref> who were saved by American and international aid."  Based on the findings of genocide investigators; the Khmer Rouge killed ''at least'' 2.8 million people in three years.  The Wikipedia article on the Khmer Rouge mentions the 1.39 million in mass graves.  However, it falsely implies without ever being explicit that these Cambodians died from ''all causes'', that many died in the civil war, and that these findings are actually consistent with the claim that Pol Pot only killed 700,000 Cambodians.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge</ref>   

#Wikipedia's attempts to conflate the death toll from American bombing and from Communist genocide are reminiscent of the tactics of Holocaust deniers who exaggerate the toll of Allied bombing and then assert that the deaths in the camps were the result of food shortages caused by the war against the Nazis.  Here's a telling case in point:  Genocide investigators have uncovered 20,000 mass graves filled with the bodies of Khmer Rouge victims, counting ''only'' mass graves located ''at'' Khmer Rouge execution centers and those filled with victims whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators' examinations to have been execution by the regime (keep in mind that executions accounted for only ''half'' the death toll).  These same investigators have found only 2 mass graves filled with the victims of US bombing.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref>

#Wikipedia's attempts to conflate the death toll from American bombing and from Communist genocide are reminiscent of the tactics of Holocaust deniers who exaggerate the toll of Allied bombing and then assert that the deaths in the camps were the result of food shortages caused by the war against the Nazis.  Here's a telling case in point:  Genocide investigators have uncovered 20,000 mass graves filled with the bodies of Khmer Rouge victims, counting ''only'' mass graves located ''at'' Khmer Rouge execution centers and those filled with victims whose cause of death has been determined by the investigators' examinations to have been execution by the regime (keep in mind that executions accounted for only ''half'' the death toll).  These same investigators have found only 2 mass graves filled with the victims of US bombing.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref>

#Its section on the aftermath of the Vietnam War flatly declines to mention the 70,000 South Vietnamese killed within 90 days of the Communist takeover, the massive death toll from the invasion of South Vietnam, the 200-400,000 boat who died at sea, or the 600,000 South Vietnamese who were slaughtered by the Communists after 1975 (not counting the boat people).<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Aftermath</ref>  It also minimizes the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.  It does not mention the 150,000 killed by the Pathet Lao in Laos.  Wikipedia does not mention anywhere on its site the 500,000 to 1,500,000<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB4.1A.GIF</ref> Cambodians who were killed by the brutal dictatorship imposed on Cambodia by Communist Vietnam, with one exception.  ''This editor'' recently added it to their article on "Covert United States Foreign Regime Change Actions," and to my knowledge it has yet to be censored.

#Its section on the aftermath of the Vietnam War flatly declines to mention the 70,000 South Vietnamese killed within 90 days of the Communist takeover, the massive death toll from the invasion of South Vietnam, the 200-400,000 boat who died at sea, or the 600,000 South Vietnamese who were slaughtered by the Communists after 1975 (not counting the boat people).<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Aftermath</ref>  It also minimizes the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge.  It does not mention the 150,000 killed by the Pathet Lao in Laos.  Wikipedia does not mention anywhere on its site the 500,000 to 1,500,000<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.TAB4.1A.GIF</ref> Cambodians who were killed by the brutal dictatorship imposed on Cambodia by Communist Vietnam (after 1979), with one exception.  ''This editor'' recently added it to their article on "Covert United States Foreign Regime Change Actions," and to my knowledge it has yet to be censored.

#It's article on left-wing conspiracy theorist John Pilger uncritically regurgitates his claim that the US and UK armed and aided the Khmer Rouge, without ever mentioning the "very substantial" libel damages he had to pay in England for promulgating the fantasy.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Vietnam</ref>

#It's article on left-wing conspiracy theorist John Pilger uncritically regurgitates his claim that the US and UK armed and aided the Khmer Rouge, without ever mentioning the "very substantial" libel damages he had to pay in England for promulgating the fantasy.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger#Vietnam</ref>

#Its article on "Covert US Regime Change" explicitly denied that any human rights violations had ever been committed by the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua at all--until August 18,2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&diff=379631015&oldid=379603484</ref>  On September 3, most of the changes were censored on the grounds that they were "irrelevant" "allegations".<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&action=history</ref>  Wikipedia has endorsed the results of the rigged 1984 election, as well.  Its article on the election repeats conspiracy theories from discredited genocide deniers like Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in support of the ridiculous claim.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_general_election,_1984</ref>

#Its article on "Covert US Regime Change" explicitly denied that any human rights violations had ever been committed by the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua at all--until August 18,2010.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&diff=379631015&oldid=379603484</ref>  On September 3, most of the changes were censored on the grounds that they were "irrelevant" "allegations".<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Covert_United_States_foreign_regime_change_actions&action=history</ref>  Wikipedia has endorsed the results of the rigged 1984 election, as well.  Its article on the election repeats conspiracy theories from discredited genocide deniers like Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in support of the ridiculous claim.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_general_election,_1984</ref>

#Wikipedia regurgitates and proudly endorses even the most absurdly extreme official Iraqi government propaganda when it claims that "up to 1.5 million Iraqis" died as a "result" of the sanctions on Iraq.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions</ref>  It is a matter of public record that the sanctions specifically exempted food and medicine; that they applied only to weaponry; that Iraq had far more humanitarian supplies available to it under the Oil For Food program (first offered to Iraq in 1992) than it would have had over the same period based on the trends that existed ''before'' the Gulf War; and that excess deaths did not occur in the North of Iraq, where the US and UN administered the same program under the same sanctions regime, but only in those parts of Iraq were Saddam was charged with rationing the humanitarian supplies.<ref>http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1999/09/iraq99.htm</ref>

#Wikipedia regurgitates and proudly endorses even the most absurdly extreme official Iraqi government propaganda when it claims that "up to 1.5 million Iraqis" died as a "result" of the sanctions on Iraq.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_sanctions</ref>  It is a matter of public record that the sanctions specifically exempted food and medicine; that they applied only to weaponry; that Iraq had far more humanitarian supplies available to it under the Oil For Food program (first offered to Iraq in 1992) than it would have had over the same period based on the trends that existed ''before'' the Gulf War; and that excess deaths did not occur in the North of Iraq, where the US and UN administered the same program under the same sanctions regime, but only in those parts of Iraq were Saddam was charged with rationing the humanitarian supplies.<ref>http://www.fas.org/news/iraq/1999/09/iraq99.htm</ref>

#On July 28, 2010, the United States was listed as a "belligerent" fighting on the side of Iraq in Wikipedia's "Iran-Iraq War" article.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=375898707&oldid=375895692</ref>  On July 15, 2010, [[Ronald Reagan]] was listed under "commanders and leaders" as a commander of Iraqi forces, alongside Saddam Hussein and his thugs.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=368133799&oldid=368122576</ref>

#On July 28, 2010, the United States was listed as a "belligerent" fighting on the side of Iraq in Wikipedia's "Iran-Iraq War" article.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=375898707&oldid=375895692</ref>  On July 15, 2010, [[Ronald Reagan]] was listed under "commanders and leaders" as a commander of Iraqi forces, alongside Saddam Hussein and his thugs.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War&diff=368133799&oldid=368122576</ref>

#Wikipedia's [[George W. Bush]] article says:  "Those invasions led to the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq as well as the deaths of many Iraqis, with surveys indicating between four hundred thousand to over one million dead, excluding the tens of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Foreign_policy</ref>  In reality, based on the findings of Iraqi hospitals and morgues, the Iraqi government estimates that 150,000 Iraqis died in the war, with only 1-2% of those deaths being at the hands of US troops, and the rest by the insurgency they were combating.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp</ref>  The American army in Iraq has taken ''three times'' as many casualties as it has inflicted on Iraqi civilians in collateral damage.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp</ref>  Although Wikipedia may insist that these numbers are there only to help unbiased viewers consider the Bush legacy, there is no mention of the fact that the US invasion of Afghanistan saved millions of Afghans from starvation,<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42858-2001Dec30?language=printer</ref><ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24019</ref> or that the lives of 112,000 Afghan children and 7,500 pregnant Afghan women have been saved every year since as a result (by UNICEF figures).<ref>New York Times, February 1, 2002.</ref>

#Wikipedia's [[George W. Bush]] article says:  "Those invasions led to the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq as well as the deaths of many Iraqis, with surveys indicating between four hundred thousand to over one million dead, excluding the tens of thousands of civilians in Afghanistan."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Foreign_policy</ref>  In reality, based on the findings of Iraqi hospitals and morgues, the Iraqi government estimates that 150,000 Iraqis died in the war, with only 1-2% of those deaths being at the hands of US troops, and the rest by the insurgency they were combating.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp</ref>  The American army in Iraq has taken ''three times'' as many casualties as it has inflicted on Iraqi civilians in collateral damage.<ref>http://www.aina.org/news/2007110894701.jsp</ref>  Although Wikipedia may insist that these numbers are there only to help unbiased viewers consider the Bush legacy, there is no mention of the fact that the US invasion of Afghanistan saved millions of Afghans from starvation,<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42858-2001Dec30?language=printer</ref><ref>http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=24019</ref> or that the lives of 112,000 Afghan children and 7,500 pregnant Afghan women have been saved every year since due to improved healthcare resulting from the invasion (by UNICEF figures).<ref>New York Times, February 1, 2002.</ref>

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