re: So, where are YOUR numbers coming from?

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Odin — 2/16/2004 1:41:06 AM (archived)

Every relevant credible source I've come across estimates the Vietnamese losses to be over 1,000,000. In 1995, the Vietnamese government claimed 1.1 million soldiers died and 4 million civilians. The civilian losses are most likely inflated, but I doubt any country purposefully overestimates its troop losses.

This is from the Encyclopedia Britannica:

More than 2,000,000 people (including 58,000 Americans) died over the course of the war, about half of them civilians.

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Impressions on Bush's interview - Raoul - 2/10/2004 7:43:46 PM
- Remember, there are many among you who wanted this man to be president more than anything else in the world. (n/t) - Greg - 2/11/2004 3:22:50 AM
  - Yeah, the Democratic alternatives look really good, don't they? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 2/11/2004 6:14:26 AM
    - re: Kerry can't be criticized for his role in Vietnam (n/t) - Raoul - 2/11/2004 6:40:14 AM
      - But he can be criticized for his actions after he came home - Larry J - 2/11/2004 8:38:51 PM
        
        Of course Kerry CAN be criticized . . . - Odin - 2/11/2004 11:29:53 PM
        
        He most definitely will be criticized and rightfully so - Larry J - 2/12/2004 1:57:51 AM
        
        Criticism for being right is wrong. - Odin - 2/12/2004 4:00:38 AM
        
        Curses. Lemme try that link again. - Odin - 2/12/2004 4:15:39 AM
        
        He claimed Americans were murdering 200,000 Vietnamese a year - Larry J - 2/12/2004 7:35:02 PM
        
        200,000 Vietnamese a year is a conservative estimate. - Odin - 2/13/2004 1:44:13 AM
        
        So, where are YOUR numbers coming from? - Tom Brosz - 2/13/2004 7:51:23 PM
        
        re: So, where are YOUR numbers coming from? - Odin - 2/16/2004 1:41:06 AM
        
        So all Americans who lived during the Vietnam War are war criminals? (n/t) - ebnelson - 2/13/2004 4:31:33 AM
        
        Not what I said. - Odin - 2/16/2004 2:00:14 AM
      - I believe Kerry will find that running on a 29 year old war only proves he can't learn from the past - ebnelson - 2/11/2004 11:21:53 AM
      - He'd better have something else besides that to run on. - Tom Brosz - 2/11/2004 6:56:39 AM
- re: Impressions on Bush's interview - Tom Brosz - 2/10/2004 9:02:21 PM
  - Wondering - Tony - 2/10/2004 9:22:40 PM

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