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To: Ilaine who wrote (36848)	8/10/2002 7:59:40 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi CobaltBlue; Re: "Does KIA mean combatants only?" Yes. I went with KIA because (a) the figures are typically more accurate, (b) there is no question when someone is killed by a fragment or a stab wound, but stuff like disease or starvation is harder to pinpoint and a lot of deaths get swept under the rug. For example, maybe 100 years from now they're going to include all those supposedly starved people in Iraq among the casualties of the Kuwaiti war. But if you want to adjust the figures to account for more than just the Killed In Action totals you're welcome to. -- Carl P.S. I hate to call the liberation of Kuwait the "Gulf War" because that sort of misstates the location of the conflict in that it was almost entirely Kuwaiti and Iraqi territory and had very little to do with the Gulf itself, and it gets confused with the Iran / Iraq war which was also called the "Gulf War", but I'd prefer to be called the Iran-Iraq war.