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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (185246)	4/16/2006 5:39:03 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

<if you are in Iraq, your risk of death due to combat is much higher (about 400 per 100,000),> Hawk, 4% is real carnage. The word decimation is wrongly used to mean ripped to shreds and largely destroyed. It used to mean one in ten was killed. With the good body protection and emergency treatment, the death rate is well down for USA troops in Iraq. But maiming must be quite high as arms and legs are not so well protected against bits of stuff flying here and there. It's not far off decimation! I can see why there are second thoughts and people looking left and right and thinking about an exit. It's not like the jolly 1950s and onwards occupations of Germany and Japan where the greatest dangers were getting overly excited about the wrong girl. Mqurice