--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- 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 :- )
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