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To: TimF who wrote (161330)	5/3/2005 7:21:40 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Its not moving on, its moving back. Its clarifying the ideas in the posts that originally led to your response with your questions. The exact numbers to answer your questions are hard to get, and aren't really relevant unless you are asserting that the American military has acted as a bunch of wanton murderers in the various conflicts that you ask about.... It was an unneccesary clarification. You were offering that military/civilian kill ratios were a measure of assessing wanton murder. For me, the topic of whether Americans are wanton murderers, perception or actual is so arbitrary and ill defined that it has no real meaning. But since you stated that the ratios had decreased from WWII, Vietnam, to Iraq, I thought there was a small chance that you might know what they were. That I was interested in. You don't, either exact or in ballpark measures. I believe that answers your question as well. jttmab