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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Taro who wrote (257229)10/27/2005 3:27:56 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) of 1574483
 
AS the aggregate number of American military fatalities in Iraq has crept up over the past 13 months - from 1,000 to 1,500 dead, and now to 2,000 - public support for the war has commensurately declined. With the nightly ghoulish news of improvised explosives and suicide bombers, Americans perhaps do not appreciate that the toppling of Saddam Hussein and the effort to establish a democratic government in Iraq have been accomplished at relatively moderate cost - two-thirds of the civilian fatalities incurred four years ago on the first day of the war against terrorism.

Tell that to the parents, spouses, friends, sons and daughters of those who have died. Tell it to the 17K soldiers who are maimed for life. I doubt any of them will see the cost as "relatively modest".
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