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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth

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To: Wayners who wrote (43866)5/1/2005 2:07:22 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
1. No one knows how many 'insurgents' there are in Iraq. US Military estimates are as high as 200,000 when you include those who provide aid and comfort. There are also infiltrators into the ranks of the Iraq 'security forces.' The US Military admits they have no clue how many of those there are but think that they are everywhere.

If the disaffected Sunnis (score one for oil minister and convicted criminal and Iranian spy Chalabi LOL) are the major force behind the insurgency, that's 20% of the population.

2. It's not just the insurgency:

- it's the average criminal
- it's the war weary citizen
- it's the EXISTENCE of civil war even if it's not 'hot' enough to make it to the evening news (the corporate media is at least several months and sometimes years behind what's happening on the ground)

Vietnam's first three years: fatalities around 400
Iraq's first two years: fatalities around 1600

Vietnam took years to ramp up PLUS the field medical services weren't anywhere near as good. Iraq's is much more deadly than Vietnam at the same point in time.
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