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To: NickSE who wrote (95440)4/21/2003 10:12:47 PM
From: NickSE  Respond to of 281500
 
Why U.S. casualties were low
usatoday.com

...Operation Iraqi Freedom illustrates how the United States has forged an era that is closer to bloodless war — for U.S. combat troops, at least — than anyone could have imagined after the carnage in Vietnam. Since 1980, about 300 U.S. soldiers have died in combat, excluding peacekeeping missions. During that time, the military has fought two wars in the Persian Gulf region, launched actions in Afghanistan, Panama and Grenada and flown bombing campaigns in Yugoslavia and Kosovo...

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To: NickSE who wrote (95440)4/21/2003 11:40:49 PM
From: KLP  Respond to of 281500
 
Start with the 200,000 barrels a day of Kirkuk oil that Iraq smuggled to Syria, an illegal pipeline flow ignored by the U.N. but stopped recently by Secretary Rumsfeld.

The press and many of the protesters haven't made much of this, have they?


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