500K ? You must be doing a bit more than just observing. You must be smoking crack.
You need a refresher course since your diagnosis is disappointingly defective, doc. Perhaps, you need some healing from the war fever, yourself.
Published on Tuesday, January 7, 2003 by Reuters
U.N. Sees 500,000 Iraqi Casualties at Start of War
by Irwin Arieff
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - As many as half a million Iraqis could require medical treatment as a result of serious injuries suffered in the early stages of a war on Iraq, U.N. emergency planners said in a document disclosed Tuesday.
The total includes some 100,000 expected to be injured as a direct result of combat and a further 400,000 wounded as an indirect result of the devastation, according to estimates prepared by the World Health Organization, the document said.
The confidential U.N. assessment was drafted a month ago but an edited version was posted Tuesday on the Web site of a British group opposed to sanctions on Iraq (http://www.cam.ac.uk/societies/casi/info/undocs/war021210.pdf)
U.N. officials confirmed the authenticity of the document, which assumes that unlike the 1991 Gulf War, a new war in Iraq would develop beyond an initial aerial bombardment into a large scale and protracted ground offensive.
"The resultant devastation would undoubtedly be great," the U.N. planners concluded. The estimates were based on material from several different U.N. organizations.
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Your credibility is up in smoke. Hope that you got a high from your hysteria. |
