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To: michael97123 who wrote (197599)	8/15/2006 9:23:21 PM
From: Sdgla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Despite media lies about Israeli "atrocities," the IDF has been doing all it can to spare civilians. For example, the Israelis repeatedly risked commando teams deep in hostile territory to take out Hezbollah command-and-control cells -- instead of just leveling the crowded apartment buildings where the terrorists were hiding. But, ultimately, all of the special operations in the world will fall far short of delivering decisive, crushing victories. We are going to have to learn to fight by the enemy's rules. And we aren't going to like it. tcsdaily.com

To: michael97123 who wrote (197599)	8/15/2006 9:36:08 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

But the reality is that war is war and war does not take into account relative populations. Well it does and it doesn't. If the casualties are really high then the percentage of the population matters, but these casualties are no where near that high. When I think "heavy casualties" for the US I think something more like Vietnam or Korea or even WWII if your thinking of a war, and not the current war in Iraq. Of course the figures for a short war like the one in Lebanon would be lower, and its reasonable to make some downward adjustment because Israel is smaller, but still 80 isn't what I would call heavy casualties in a whole conflict even after making those adjustments.

To: michael97123 who wrote (197599)	8/15/2006 9:38:20 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The more important ones are the number of pro-Hezbollah demonstrators in Baghdad. The US is now a Shiite power in the world. Amazing. The US must now be supporting Hezbollah as a Shiite power? Curious and confusing. Maybe the US will have to fight its own Iraqi government because it, or elements of it, support Hezbollah. When the original Iraqi government came into being, it went to Iran and paid homage to the Ayatollah Khomeini's grave. That little tidbit came and went in the corporate media. I wonder if the corporate media or any of you numnutzes will draw a line between Hezbollah and the IRAQI GOVERNMENT.