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

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (21880)	3/16/2003 8:28:15 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 25898

That is complete BS. US soldiers go to great lengths to limit civilian casualties... How many war zones have you served in? BTW, the number of iraqi casualties was no where near 100,000. Authoritative sources working with more detailed data have come up with lower numbers. The British govt. put the death toll at 30,000 (War Annual 6, 1994) A May 1992 report by the US House Armed Services Committee estimated that 9,000 Iraqis were killed by the air campaign. The PBS news show Frontline estimates 2300 civilians, 10-20,000 military in air war and, 10,000 military in the ground war; for a total of 27,300 ±5000. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/appendix/death.html) Because the advancing American Army found only 577 dead bodies and captured only 800 wounded/sick prisoners (compared to 37,000 healthy prisoners), John Heidenrich (Foreign Policy, 22 March 1993) plausibly estimates the number of Iraqi military killed at 1,500 (probable) to 9,500 (absolute maximum), with fewer than 1000 civilians. 29 April 1999 AP: 4,500 to 45,000 Civilian death toll is put at 2,500 by US and 35,000 by Iraqis The US lost 147 killed in battle and 289 dead otherwise. The other Coalition members lost 92 dead. NOTE: Subtracting the civilian estimates from the estimated total indicates that AP puts the military deaths in roughly the same range as Heidenrich: 2,000 to 10,000