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To: The Philosopher who wrote (2572)	2/2/2004 7:11:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7936

How disturbed were you at the deaths of innocent Iraqis during Shock and Awe? I was very saddened by them. As I hope you were. And as I know our military was, since I know people in the military. But S&A was carefully designed to minimize civilian casualties. The targets were not shopping malls or schools or hospitals or busses carrying civilians. No, just the city of Bagdad........a major, fairly dense city. The reality is that our military put pilots in danger in order to minimize civilian deaths. It would have been easier and less dangerous for our pilots to fly up beyond the reach of any anti-aircraft fire or missles and drop a few daisy cutter bombs. That would have been Shock and Awe on a much greater scale. I'm glad the military didn't take that approach. Bagdad is a city of 5 million people. No matter how careful they were, scores of innocent people died with each bomb that was dropped. They are overestimating over 10k Iraqis were killed in Bagdad alone. That is far more than all the suicide bombings in Israel.