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

To: PartyTime who wrote (21981)	3/16/2003 10:35:37 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

putting total Iraqi losses from the war and its aftermath at 158,000, The losses caused by US forces are no where near these numbers.....

To: PartyTime who wrote (21981)	3/17/2003 1:17:27 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

I submit there's no modern example of a city of 5.5 million population (possibly higher due to migrations from the northern and southern no-fly zones) being overrun militarily. The closest example is Stalingrad where two million died. Berlin was defeated at a high cost of lives, both during and after the actual fighting. The Germans rightly feared what the Russians would do in retribution. Paris was a different story altogether but there you have it, it can turn on the perceptions of the defeated. With Paris you also have the liberation by the Allies so in effect it was "overrun" twice. Maybe Baghdad will fall like Paris.