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To: carranza2 who wrote (133566)	5/19/2004 2:16:14 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Given the vast superiority of our weapons of those of the Iraqis, I expect that a huge percentage of American and Coalition wounded and killed were hit by "friendly fire," and another huge percentage just by their own mistakes or the mistakes of their fellow soldiers, like driving into a river or overturning a vehicle. Not a pleasant thing to think about. In fact, every account I've read about this demonstrates how traumatizing it is. Then there are the civilians, who also suffer more than we care to think about, due to the effectiveness of our superior fire power. A while back I came across some debriefings of combat units conducted by military historians, fellow soldiers, not judgmental, and what they reported was hair raising. One unit lost the majority of their men to "friendly fire." One man reported this was the second time he had experienced this, and all he could do was curse because he'd been told it was a freak accident, would never happen again. War isn't pretty. The people we ask to fight for us are all too human and we ask an awful lot of them.