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To: Dog Gone
Up until that point, reports indicated that at least 30 Americans and more than 150 Iraqis were dead in the fighting for the city -- the scene of last week's brutal killings of four U.S. civilian contractors.

Nice kill ratio. Need to bump it up to about 12/1 though.
:O)

Hanson makes the point in Carnage and Culture that high kill ratios are common when West meets East.

349 posted on 04/07/2004 8:19:44 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: metesky
Fixed your typo:

Nice kill ratio. Need to bump it up to about 12,000,000:1 though.
:O)

361 posted on 04/07/2004 8:24:48 AM PDT by null and void (John f'ing Kerry - More positions than the Kama Sutra...)
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To: metesky; null and void
I believe those 150 dead Iraqis are fighting *with* us, not *against* us, in which case 150 dead is tragic. Remember that the coalition is on the side of good Iraqis, and that there are a number of Iraqis fighting *with* us against *bad* Iraqis and other bad people.

I suspect the number of dead *bad* Iraqis is much higher than 150....
398 posted on 04/07/2004 8:36:28 AM PDT by Theo
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