Re: Landmines RE: US Foreign Policy Re: *DO* we share a civilization?

[Doug Pensinger]

Gautam  wrote:

> Iraqi or American casualties?  I'm not aware of any really reliable
> estimates on Iraqi casualties in those battles (I'm sure they exist, I'm
> just not aware of them) but most of the ones I've seen place the numbers in
> the 50,000 range.  That would probably be about half the casualties the
> Iraqis suffered during the war, and is probably an underestimate.  American
> casualties were extraordinarily low.  Although some infantrymen and crew of
> M-2 Bradleys were killed, only _1_ American tank crewman was killed during
> the entire war - and he was an M-1A1 tank commander who was killed by
> shrapnel from an enemy tank that his tank had destroyed.  The superiority
> of American to Iraqi ground forces was something like, oh, the Baltimore
> Ravens against a middle-school football team.

More than 50,000 casualties in less than 100 hours, 500/hr, zoiks. And what,
less than 1-200 of our own?  Some significant percentage of which were killed
or wounded by friendly fire?  Sounds more like the Ravens vs the Pop Warner*
rejects.  This was an Iraqi army of what - 1/2 million under arms, many of
which were battle tested vets?  Amazing.  

Doug

*Pop Warner is a kid's (gridiron) football league.