Re: [IRAQ] RE: Name Calling vs. Ad Hominem

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 13:15:51 MDT

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    > (Amara Graps <amara@amara.com>):
    > Damien Sullivan:
    > >Without much loss of life, but that didn't
    > > surprise --
    >
    > It depends on how you define 'much'. One precious life lost
    > is still too much in my view.
    >
    > http://www.iraqbodycount.net/
    > (~2500 Iraqi civilians died)

    That figure is not anywhere close to reality (not that you'd
    expect a site named "bodycount" to care about the truth anyway).
    The data is still being collected, but it looks like even
    military casualties of the war may be as low as 5,000, and
    civilians in the hundreds. 

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