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To: Keith Feral who wrote (150177)	11/1/2004 11:37:47 AM
From: GST	Respond to of 281500

<We are not killing innocent people. We are killing known terrorists bottled up in places like Fallujah.> The estimates on civilians deaths in Iraq range from 12,000 to 100,000 civilians dead so far -- with this last estimate based on sampling and scientific statistical analysis. The number of wounded can only be surmised as far higher than the death toll -- for our troops the ration is about 8 to 1. Using this ratio, we would have a range of 90,000 to 800,000 wounded civilians by now. The civilian deaths include do indeed include car bombings -- horrible and savage acts of violence on innocent people. But the deaths also include us dropping bombs on innocent people -- something we do with remarkable frequency, although it is not something so important that we bother to discuss it much -- we just shrug and call it "collateral damage". Make no mistake about it -- we are bombing civilian neighborhoods and civilians are dying.