For your information, David

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Tom Brosz — 1/19/2004 2:47:09 AM (archived)

This guy works it out to about 138 a day, on average. This includes fatalities in Saddam's war on Iran. If you just divide the estimated 300,000 occupants of the mass graves by 25 years, it comes out to about 33 lives saved a day on average.

Figuring in about 4,300 non-combatant Iraqis who died from the coalition invasion, the Iraqi people broke even on casualties about the middle of April, 2003 in the former case, and sometime around the end of last July by the latter reckoning.

Averaging it out over time is acceptable, since those counting U.S. casualties have no problem averaging them out to a daily toll.

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Car Bomb Kills 20 Outside Main U.S. Base in Baghdad - Donald - 1/18/2004 1:19:05 PM
- Don, you seem to have such glee in reporting stuff like this. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/18/2004 7:05:06 PM
  - Don't be ridiculous, David - Donald - 1/18/2004 7:17:47 PM
    - Don, please answer the following question: How many persons would have been murdered by Saddam since the time of the invasion if the USA-UK had NOT invaded? (Hint: Saddam's death squads typically mur… (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/18/2004 9:46:01 PM
      - For your information, David - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2004 2:47:09 AM
      - Don't change the subject - Donald - 1/19/2004 2:08:37 AM
        
        I abjectly apologize for misinterpreting your reaction. I am sincerely sorry that I offended you. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 1/19/2004 5:40:42 PM
        
        Back up your claim that 'tens of thousands' of Iraqi civilians died - ebnelson - 1/19/2004 4:28:06 AM
        
        re: deaths in war - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2004 2:36:35 AM
    - Meanwhile: No blister agent in Iraq shells - Donald - 1/18/2004 7:27:22 PM
      - Still some questions - Tom Brosz - 1/19/2004 1:10:50 AM
        
        So... - Donald - 1/19/2004 1:57:14 AM

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