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To: elmatador who wrote (30223)	3/27/2003 1:31:08 AM
From: energyplay	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

Elmat wrote - "Despite the bombardment of favorable news reaching the US citizens, the war will be decided by the body count. The body bags can't be disguised by favorable news. Iraq wants the body bags to pile up as high as it can to turn public opinion in the US against the war. Strategy is: Block supply lines, get TV footage of destroyed truck convoys and soldiers and materiel stuck without fuel and running low in water and food." I think that's Iraq's plan. Most of the U.S. public won't flinch until U.S. death toll goes over 500. It would have to reach 2,000 before it became a serious problem, and that could be mitigated by progress getting closer to Baghdad, finding more WMDs, mass Iraqi surrenders, and getting more areas of Iraq out of Saddam's control. I don't see this administration backing down until U.S. deaths are over 5,000, maybe 10,000.