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To: FaultLine who wrote (6029)	10/18/2001 7:02:04 PM
From: RocketMan	Read Replies (1) of 281500

They still think Americans have no stomach for casualties, but everything has changed. Actually, nothing has changed. Their mistaken belief that Americans have no stomach for casualties is a gross miscalculation on their part, based only on Somalia (and, arguably, Kosovo and Bosnia) which, as you point out, was a peacekeeping mission. The following casualty figures demonstrates what the burden that the American people "stomached" to preserve freedom in previous wars, wars that did not even include an attack on the continental U.S. 58000 vietnam 34000 korea 292000 WWII 53000 WWI

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