Re: USA develops space-based weapons

"Ed Kyle" <edkyle99@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:Fred J. McCall wrote:
:> :75% of Sunni's do support the insurgency.
:>
:> I'd bet that's an incorrect statement stemming from some journalist's
:> ignorance and should actually read 75% of ARAB Sunnis. The Kurds are
:> Sunnis, you see, and definitely do NOT support said insurgency. The
:> population of Iraq is around 35% Sunni and around 17% or so Kurdish.
:> That leave around 18%-20% of the country as Arab Sunni.
:>
:> So that 75% amounts to around 15% of the population of the country AT
:> MOST, which is hardly a big enough proportion to claim that in Iraq
:> "the populace supports the insurgency".
:
:The majority of the Sunni populace in about 1/3rd of the country
:overwhelmingly supports the insurgents. Million of people, those.
:That is what I mean by "populace".

Then perhaps you should have said something like "in some regions of
the country" in front of your original remark rather than using the
(deliberately?) misleading formulation that you chose?

--
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
soul with evil."
-- Socrates
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