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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Ish who wrote (202121)	11/12/2001 9:32:25 PM
From: Walkingshadow	Read Replies (2) of 769670

It is not necessary for me to be there. There are correspondents there relaying the events. There was not a lull in the bombing, followed by Taliban running for their lives. There was a series of battles, an offensive the Northern Alliance was finally able to muster, and it was successful. Here's just one account of part of it: latimes.com And even the Pentagon, with it's well-known propensity to inflate the numbers, admits that 12 to 40 were killed per day: dailynews.yahoo.com Even if you take the high end of these guesstimates---a dubious proposition at best---still you are left with the fact that the cumulative sum total of casualties from the bombing was only about 1000 troops. Using the low-ball end of the guesstimates leaves you with less than 400 killed. WS

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