--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You are semi right here Rory. I was the first to mention Kerry when defining > the word casualty. I said the word casualty didn't necessarily mean death > but could be any wound needing medical attention requiring just a band aid to a > death certificate. The Kerry comment about his purple hearts was an example > of how minor a casualty statistic could be.
Right you are! To which Judy replied (IIRC) to the effect that in this context, casualties clearly meant deaths. I would still like to see hard > numbers about civilian casualties in Iraq and what the extent if the casualty > was. So would I. I would also like to know how many casualties are attributed to > terrorists resisting the will of the Iraqi people to set up a democracy. These last appear to be somewhat loaded terms. Are permanent American bases in Iraq part of "the will of the Iraqi people to set up a democracy?" Is one man's "freedom-fighter" another's "terrorist"? Is it a democracy if it is brought in from the outside on the point of a gun? It certainly doesn't sound like freedom, at any rate. It *does* sound rather like an expansion of an American oil-empire, however :-) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
