To: Tailgunner Joe
The reality of our involvement in Iraq is that a significant number of the casualties among the coalition forces were NOT of injuries received as a result of engagement with the enemy, but due to vehicular crashes, or in connection with operation of heavy machinery. The differentiation is not sufficiently explained, as in when there have been reports of "about one death per day since hostilities were declared over" in Iraq. True, there have been RPG attacks and samll-arms shootings from close up, but most of those who have died were involved in vehicle or industrial type accidents.
To: alloysteel
At one point 75% of injuries were due to accidents. That is up from roughly 50% in GW1.
10 posted on
07/08/2003 6:00:44 AM PDT by
Eagle Eye
(There ought to be a law against excessive legislation.)
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