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Article #1550Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine
From: Mike P
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:54
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:54
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"DeadMeat" <me@privacy.net> wrote in message news:cnbbie$fgv$1@news.chatlink.com... > > "Colin Campbell" <activated95b@earthlink.net (remove underscore)> wrote in > message news:027ip09m1di79m79a5rufot95dguvs6rmj@4ax.com... >> On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:10:49 GMT, Dharmananda <Nil@neph.net> wrote: >> >> >remove underscore wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> Ok. Support this claim. How many civilians have died in Falluja? >> >> >> > >> >The DoD has said that there were, at the very least, 10,000 civilians in >> >Fallujah when it was attacked, >> >and the best estimate was 70,000 to 100,000 >> >> Answer the question. How many civilians have died in Falluja? > > More 404thk00k BS. Until the smoke clears, no one will know. And even > then, it will be a rough estimate. > > >> >> >> >So where are these people today? >> > >> >There are numerous anecdotal accounts of the streets of Fallujah being > full >> >of corpses, some of them eaten by stray animals, and that the stench of >> >death blows from every street. >> >> And we all know how accurate 'anecdotal reports' are. >> >> > >> >Given the complete destruction of the city, and the numbers of civilians >> >that were in it, one knows that there were thousands, if not tens of >> >thousands, of civilian casualties. >> >> What 'complete destruction' of the city? >> >> (Please point this out to me as I cannot believe that I would not have >> noticed.) > > You aren't anywhere near there. You have to go by the same press releases > that he does. The only difference is, one is from the left and the other > is > from the right. Niether can be completely trusted. > > >> >> > >> >There are fifty press reports about this from all over the map. I'm not >> >going to do your reasearch for you. Get a job. >> >> Yup, iffy press reports from sources who said the same thing about >> Samarra. They were wrong then, why should you believe them now? > > Anymore than we should believe you. What's your point? Opinions are > opinions. Except for those that are there, and are real soldiers. Meaning not you as you have never served in Combat except on your way out after being thrown out as an E-4. Mike
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