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To: TimF who wrote (320980)	1/16/2007 7:02:16 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573501

re: Wars are complex because positive and esp, negative repercussions can take a long time to point out, but simple in terms of death tolls - Vietnam was bigger, as was Korea. WWI and WWII and the Civil War were much bigger. Death toll and cost are significant. But from the vantage of this point in time, what's the "disaster quotient" of Iran becoming the regional power in the Middle East? Or the US becoming much less popular throughout the world? Or the weakening of some of our most important International institutions? Or worst case... the ME becoming the spark and local for a 3rd world war with a subsequent cut in world oil production by more than 50% <throwing the world into a depression>? re: and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake/fire (which may have killed about as many as the American death toll in Iraq, and which devastated a major American city. I was thinking more in terms of man made, policy disasters. One other point... if you add the qualifier "unneccissary disasters" I think it pretty much leaves Iraq and Vietnam in contention for worst.