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#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>

#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>

#Wikipedia’s article on “Criticism of Noam Chomsky” (the aforementioned extreme left-wing propagandist and genocide denier) is nothing but an entire page dedicated to defending him and endorsing his conspiracy theories.  It is written in such a biased manner as to imply that Chomsky was ''correct'' to deny the Cambodian genocide.  This pages ''endorses'' the notion that the "total population decline" due to the policies of the Khmer Rouge was "about 400,000" Cambodians (off by nearly a factor of ten, and more than a factor of ten when you add the 1.2 million murdered by Samrin and the Vietnamese after 1979) and further favorably cites the following quote to demonstrate that it did not constitute genocide:  “It is interesting, and perhaps suggestive, that Barnes uses the terms "genocide," "holocaust," and "mass murder" as if they were interchangeable.”<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Position_on_Cambodian_atrocities_criticized</ref>   

#Wikipedia’s article on “Criticism of Noam Chomsky” (the aforementioned extreme left-wing propagandist and genocide denier) is nothing but an entire page dedicated to defending him and endorsing his conspiracy theories.  It is written in such a biased manner as to imply that Chomsky was ''correct'' to deny the Cambodian genocide.  This pages ''endorses'' the notion that the "total population decline" due to the policies of the Khmer Rouge was "about 400,000" Cambodians (off by nearly a factor of ten, and more than a factor of ten when you add the 1.2 million murdered by Samrin and the Vietnamese after 1979) and further favorably cites the following quote to demonstrate that it did not constitute genocide:  “It is interesting, and perhaps suggestive, that Barnes uses the terms "genocide," "holocaust," and "mass murder" as if they were interchangeable.”<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Position_on_Cambodian_atrocities_criticized</ref>   

#In 2002, Chomsky made the following factually inaccurate<ref>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/chomsky_redux.html</ref><ref>http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/how-many-people-died-as-a-result-of-us-bombing-in-sudan/</ref><ref>http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/chomsky-needs-a-fact-checker/</ref> claim about President [[Clinton]]’s bombing of the [[Sudan]]:  "That one bombing, according to the estimates made by the German Embassy in Sudan and Human Rights Watch, probably led to tens of thousands of deaths."  Wikipedia has explicitly and in no uncertain terms endorsed this baseless assertion.  On Wikipedia’s "Criticism of Noam Chomsky" page, the following is stated as a categorical fact:  "Chomsky's claim about the German Embassy in Sudan was correct."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Improper_attribution_of_a_quote</ref>  It was most certainly not:  A former German ambassador who was nowhere near Sudan at the time did make a similar off-the-record self-described “guess” sans any evidence to a magazine that refused to endorse the assertion, with HRW strongly disputing the claim, but the total number of confirmed deaths from the bombing is 1.<ref>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/chomsky_redux.html</ref>

#In 2002, Chomsky made the following factually inaccurate<ref>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/chomsky_redux.html</ref><ref>http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/how-many-people-died-as-a-result-of-us-bombing-in-sudan/</ref><ref>http://www.leftwatch.com/articles/2002/chomsky-needs-a-fact-checker/</ref> claim about President [[Clinton]]’s bombing of the [[Sudan]]:  "That one bombing, according to the estimates made by the German Embassy in Sudan and Human Rights Watch, probably led to tens of thousands of deaths."  Wikipedia has explicitly and in no uncertain terms endorsed this baseless assertion.  On Wikipedia’s "Criticism of Noam Chomsky" page, the following is stated as a categorical fact:  "Chomsky's claim about the German Embassy in Sudan was correct."<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Noam_Chomsky#Improper_attribution_of_a_quote</ref>  It was most certainly not:  A former German ambassador who was nowhere near Sudan at the time did make a similar off-the-record self-described “guess” sans any evidence to a magazine that refused to endorse the assertion, with HRW strongly disputing the claim, but the total number of confirmed deaths from the bombing is 1.<ref>http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2004/10/chomsky_redux.html</ref> It might be profitable to note that, according to Chomsky's own elaboration on the subject, most of those "excess deaths" would have been the consequence of US aid workers temporarily leaving the country for fear of reprisals.  Since the US bombed Sudan in response to its vicious sponsorship of terrorist atrocities against American targets in Africa that murdered hundreds of people, apparently both Chomsky and Wikipedia conclude that it would be criminal for the United States to ''not'' aid states that sponsor acts of war against it.

#Wikipedia’s "Noam Chomsky" article claims that the atrocities in Communist Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were "objectively similar except for the alignment of domestic élite interests" to those perpetrated in [[East Timor]] by the armed forces of [[Indonesia]].<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Influence_in_other_fields</ref>  In fact, genocide investigators have determined that the Khmer Rouge perpetrated at least 1.1 million violent killings in three years, and estimated that the full toll might have reached 1.5 million.  The estimate was subsequently raised to at least 1.39 million violent killings, a sum which represents no more than ''half'' the total death toll.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref>  A Truth Commission found that the Indonesian army had perpetrated 18,600 violent killings in East Timor over 21 years, and had caused at least 75,000 additional excess deaths from hunger and illness.<ref>Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR), January 30, 2006, part 6, paras. 47, 56-7: http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/846.html</ref>  Comparable?  Objective?  You decide.

#Wikipedia’s "Noam Chomsky" article claims that the atrocities in Communist Cambodia under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge were "objectively similar except for the alignment of domestic élite interests" to those perpetrated in [[East Timor]] by the armed forces of [[Indonesia]].<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky#Influence_in_other_fields</ref>  In fact, genocide investigators have determined that the Khmer Rouge perpetrated at least 1.1 million violent killings in three years, and estimated that the full toll might have reached 1.5 million.  The estimate was subsequently raised to at least 1.39 million violent killings, a sum which represents no more than ''half'' the total death toll.<ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/deaths.htm</ref><ref>http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/toll.htm</ref>  A Truth Commission found that the Indonesian army had perpetrated 18,600 violent killings in East Timor over 24 years, and had caused at least 75,000 additional excess deaths from hunger and illness.<ref>Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor (CAVR), January 30, 2006, part 6, paras. 47, 56-7: http://www.ictj.org/en/news/features/846.html</ref>  Comparable?  Objective?  You decide.

#Wikipedia's article on the [[Korean War]] claims, without offering any citation in support, that up to 1.2 million South Koreans had been killed by the state prior to or during the invasion from North Korea.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Bodo_League_anti.E2.80.93communist_massacre</ref>  It further favorably cites a quote from a South Korean victim that "when the people from the other side [North Korea] came here, they didn't kill many people."  Although the quote in question is apparently accurate, the way in which Wikipedia characterizes these events might lead readers to perceive the Communist aggression as a ''liberation'' from oppressive right-wing tyranny.  In response, it should be noted that:  Although there is no source to check as regards their numbers, it seems likely that their 1.2 million figure is heavily exaggerated, and may come from official Communist propaganda, because the government of South Korea never killed anything like that subsequently and eventually gave up power voluntarily and held free elections; the North Koreans ''did'' kill many people, the war of aggression they started cost 2.5 million lives<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>, they worked 500,000 South Korean POWs to death in concentration camps<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>, and given the large number of "hostiles" sent to perform hard labor in North Korea (not counting those in the concentration camps)--possibly more than 4 million in 1989 alone according to human rights groups--more than 2 million North Koreans have been killed by the state through slave labor since the end of the war if we assume a death rate of just over 1%.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>  A ''further'' 3 million North Koreans have been starved to death by the state in just the most recent famine.<ref>http://www.rense.com/political/koreastarve.htm</ref>

#Wikipedia's article on the [[Korean War]] claims, without offering any citation in support, that up to 1.2 million South Koreans had been killed by the state prior to or during the invasion from North Korea.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War#Bodo_League_anti.E2.80.93communist_massacre</ref>  It further favorably cites a quote from a South Korean victim that "when the people from the other side [North Korea] came here, they didn't kill many people."  Although the quote in question is apparently accurate, the way in which Wikipedia characterizes these events might lead readers to perceive the Communist aggression as a ''liberation'' from oppressive right-wing tyranny.  In response, it should be noted that:  Although there is no source to check as regards their numbers, it seems likely that their 1.2 million figure is heavily exaggerated, and may come from official Communist propaganda, because the government of South Korea never killed anything like that subsequently and eventually gave up power voluntarily and held free elections; the North Koreans ''did'' kill many people, the war of aggression they started cost 2.5 million lives<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>, they worked 500,000 South Korean POWs to death in concentration camps<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>, and given the large number of "hostiles" sent to perform hard labor in North Korea (not counting those in the concentration camps)--possibly more than 4 million in 1989 alone according to human rights groups--more than 2 million North Koreans have been killed by the state through slave labor since the end of the war if we assume a death rate of just over 1%.<ref>http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/SOD.CHAP10.HTM</ref>  A ''further'' 3 million North Koreans have been starved to death by the state in just the most recent famine.<ref>http://www.rense.com/political/koreastarve.htm</ref>

#In Wikipedia’s article on the Indonesian mass killings of suspected leftists and Communists in the mid-sixties, in which up to one million people were killed, Wikipedia claims the following: “The massacres were described by Time as 'The West's Best News in Asia'.[57] A headline in US News and World Report read: 'Indonesia: Hope... where there was once none'.[58] New York Times columnist James Reston celebrated 'A gleam of light in Asia'.[59]”<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966#U.S._involvement_and_reaction</ref>  Time Magazine never referred to the slaughter as “The West’s Best News in Asia,” it vociferously condemned the “boiling bloodbath” and said that the prospects of regional peace and of Indonesian neutrality in the Cold War were “the West’s best news for years in Asia.”<ref>Time, July 15, 1966.</ref>  A New York Times op-ed listed strategic changes in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Japan, the Philippines and China under the headline: “Washington: A Gleam of Light in Asia.”<ref>James Reston, “Washington: A Gleam of Light in Asia,” New York Times, June 19, 1966; Editorial, New York Times, August 25, 1966.</ref>

#In Wikipedia’s article on the Indonesian mass killings of suspected leftists and Communists in the mid-sixties, in which up to one million people were killed, Wikipedia claims the following: “The massacres were described by Time as 'The West's Best News in Asia'.[57] A headline in US News and World Report read: 'Indonesia: Hope... where there was once none'.[58] New York Times columnist James Reston celebrated 'A gleam of light in Asia'.[59]”<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesian_killings_of_1965%E2%80%931966#U.S._involvement_and_reaction</ref>  Time Magazine never referred to the slaughter as “The West’s Best News in Asia,” it vociferously condemned the “boiling bloodbath” and said that the prospects of regional peace and of Indonesian neutrality in the Cold War were “the West’s best news for years in Asia.”<ref>Time, July 15, 1966.</ref>  A New York Times op-ed listed strategic changes in Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Japan, the Philippines and China under the headline: “Washington: A Gleam of Light in Asia.”<ref>James Reston, “Washington: A Gleam of Light in Asia,” New York Times, June 19, 1966; Editorial, New York Times, August 25, 1966.</ref>