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Originally posted by Thoran:
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Originally posted by Chewbacca:
Here are some statistics for the first gulf war that include only military casualties:
http://www.sci.fi/~fta/stats.htm
Although they are not civilan death,s it twists my gut to think that upwards estimates of Iraqi casualities were in the 100,000 ballpark figure. Thats alot of dead sons and sad moms. I couldn't tell you if we could estimate the Iraqi death toll in the current conflict...but these stats make me wonder.
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That was the high side... looks like one of the sources on that site estimated the casualties could be only in the low tens of thousands. That's not to say that it's OK that only 10,000 died, but compared to historical warfare it's relatively light IMO.[/QUOTE]Yes but the U.S. department of defense estimated 100,000, I saw one low figure around 7,000. Even if we take an average we get tens of thousands.
In relation to the current conflict this is quite a potential we are facing, especially considering the stiff Iraqi resistance and the absence of expected mass surrenders in the first week or so of the war. I wonder if our humanitarian aid packages will inclued grief counseling for potentially millions?