Question for someone with the book "Plan of Attack" by Bob Woodward

[Eric J in MN]

Does Woodward write that 30,000 Iraqis were killed during the first phase of the Iraq War, or of 30,000 Iraqi casualties (people killed and people wounded).

I ask partially based on this letter today at latimes.com

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Boot's cheery assurance that the Iraq war has produced one of the lowest casualty rates in our history contains an obvious but, I suppose, predictable omission. Iraqi civilian casualties through May 7 have been estimated at a minimum of 9,187 and a maximum of 11,046. And Bob Woodward in "Plan of Attack" quotes Army Gen. Tommy Franks early in the war estimating 30,000 Iraqi military casualties before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld cut him off, saying, "It would not be helpful that people walked out of the room with that number in their heads."

Edgar Schell

Irvine

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Yes, Woodward says that.

During the first phase of the war, it is estimated that between 30,000 and 60,000 Iraqi military were killed.

On edit: Finished the book yesterday.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Thank you (nt)

nt