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[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Independent (London) - April 5, 2003
>
>130,000 British and American troops are in action in Iraq from a total
>force of 250,000 in the Gulf. The Allies have launched 725 Tomahawk cruise
>missiles, flown 18,000 sorties, dropped 50 cluster bombs and discharged
>12,000 precision-guided munitions.  There have been an estimated 1,252
>Iraqi civilian deaths, 57 Kurdish deaths and 5,103 civilian injuries. 88
>Allied troops have been killed in the conflict, 27 of whom are British. At
>least 12 Allied soldiers are missing, 34 Allied soldiers have been killed
>in 'friendly fire' incidents or battlefield accidents.  9 journalists have
>been killed or are unaccounted for.  There have been 2 suicide attacks on
>US troops, killing 7 soldiers. 8,023 Iraqi combatants have been taken
>prisoner of war.  So far, 0 weapons of mass destruction have been found.
>1,500,000 people in southern Iraq have no access to clean water. 200,000
>children in southern Iraq are at risk of death from diarrhoea. 17,000,000
>Iraqis are reliant on food aid, which has now been stopped. 600 oil wells
>and refineries are now under British and American control.  80bn dollars
>has been set aside by US Congress to meet the cost of war. A capital city
>of 5,000,000 people now stands between the Allied forces and their 1
>objective: the removal of Saddam Hussein

And all because of one failed pretzel.  If Bush had actually choked to death 
back when, does anyone think the reclusive Cheney could have started this 
war on his own?  The Butterfly Effect marches on.

Carl

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