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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Just_Observing who wrote (17875)	3/9/2003 12:25:33 AM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

We are promising 800 cruise missiles in the first two days. Even with just 200 casualties per cruise missile, that's 160,000 casualties in the first two days. How are you arriving at a figure specifying "200 casualties per cruise missile"? Unfortunately, the UN casualty figures appear to be quite plausible. I don't think the right questions have been asked of those figures yet: do the U.N. figures specify between Iraqi civilian and military casualties? In either case, what time frame assumptions are made, and how are they defining "casualties"? LPS5

To: Just_Observing who wrote (17875)	3/9/2003 12:30:03 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 25898

Nope. Those figures bear no relation to reality. 200 per Cruise missile is completely wild ass speculation You guys in the PQ set need to learn how to do some critical thinking.... JLA

To: Just_Observing who wrote (17875)	3/9/2003 12:33:35 AM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

I think the casualty projections are low if Stalingrad is the benchmark, where two million actually died. In fact, more people died in there than did the entirety of Americans who were killed fighting in World War II. Baghdad is a city of 5.5 million and will have a strong military force not wanting to fall prey to regime change. There's no doubt in my mind that Bush will have nightmares over the bloodshed and will probably move through the rest of history much like the former president from New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce--alcoholic.