henslee
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Thu Sep-09-04 01:36 PM
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1 in 4 Amercain casualties in Iraq were non-hostile - Today's NYT |
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page A22. Hard copy. No link. Heading...Conflict in Iraq: Casualties. Data part of charts accompanying "Roster of the Dead" by Matthew Ericson & Tom Torok
That is an astonishing fact.
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Thu Sep-09-04 01:40 PM
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1. If it kills you it's hostile........ |
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Thu Sep-09-04 01:54 PM
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2. The rest................... |
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probably died from food poisoning after eating the slop Halliburton fed them. How can they be non-hostile? If you're in harms way becuase of some idiot's vendetta and greed for oil. and you get killed, I'd say that's a hostile casualty. If Bush had decided to send our soldiers to Coney Island and one of them got killed, I'd consider that non-hostile. THEY'RE IN FREAKING IRAQ!!
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Thu Sep-09-04 02:00 PM
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3. Come on, both of you... hostile as in enemy inflicted (whew) |
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Thu Sep-09-04 02:06 PM
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4. 1 in 4 soldiers in Afghanistan are killed by negligent discharge |
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shooting themselves and each other because their gun went off when they didn't intend it to. That stat doesn't include the "friendly fires." http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=22704&archive=true
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