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  • Gulf War I casualty % / cost %

    10/11/2004 2:08:24 AM PDT · by dsmtoday · 7 replies · 493+ views
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    These are grim statistics, but they come up in the debates. Useful to compare current stats to Gulf War I stats, which was UN approved. Gulf War I deathshttp://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/gulf.war/facts/gulfwar/US deaths = 293 UK deaths = 24 France deaths = 2 Germany deaths = 0 Canada deaths = 0 Arab (non-Iraq) deaths = 39 Total = 358 US death % = 82% This, despite the fact that non-US forces were 24 percent of all forces. As usual, the US forces (and the Brits) take on the tougher jobs on the ground and in the front lines. The Arabs were on the...