DrafterX wrote:well, there wasn't even 1,000 dead at the time so why mention it..?
Oh I dunno... maybe for the same reason Trump mentioned a top secret nuclear weapons program to a reporter on the record ON TAPE? For the giggles? It's not like it was an accidental slip.... 18 recorded calls.
You're right..... under 1000 dead isn't worth mentioning. Reminds me of an excerpt from something I read.
To sate the lust of power; more horrid still,
The foulest stain and scandal of our nature
Became its boast — One Murder made a Villain,
Millions a Hero. — Princes were privileg’d
To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
Ah! why will Kings forget that they are Men?
From - Death: A Poetical Essay by Beilby Porteus