[lbo-talk] War on Iraq gee-whiz data

[Carl Remick]

>From Paul Craig Roberts' column:  "According to the Sept. 1 Manufacturing & 
Technology News, the Government Accounting Office has reported that over the 
course of the cakewalk war, the U.S. military's use of small caliber 
ammunition has risen to 1.8 billion rounds. Think about that number. If 
there are 20,000 insurgents, it means U.S. troops have fired 90,000 rounds 
at each insurgent.  Very few have been hit. We don't know how many. To avoid 
the analogy with Vietnam, until last week the U.S. military studiously 
avoided body counts. If 2,000 insurgents have been killed, each death 
required 900,000 rounds of ammunition."

<http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=7330>

Carl