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Post #236,132
by bepatient
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11/26/05 8:47:11 PM
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New I should know better.
The real point, and I should stick to those around here, I know, was that the common comparison that is being made for this current conflict is Vietnam. And Vietnam it is most defintely not...at least as far as casualty levels are concerned. Its not even close.

I don't really much care for who started it.
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over. Fudd's First Law of Opposition

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Post #236,162
by ben_tilly
11/27/05 12:47:16 AM
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New Right. Not by a factor of 10.
But as [link|http://www.lies.com/wp/2003/10/20/us-deaths-in-vietnam-and-iraq-by-month/|http://www.lies.com/...nd-iraq-by-month/] points out, casualty rates are higher in Iraq than at the start of Vietnam. (But then again, so are troop levels.)

Either way it is an uglier situation and looks to become uglier still.

Cheers,
Ben
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
     White Phosphorus, hype vs reality - (marlowe) - (20) - Nov. 26, 2005, 02:38:43 PM EST
         Phil vs Pentagon - (rcareaga) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2005, 02:59:03 PM EST
             you mean when I was calling in rounds of WP to Mark - (boxley) - Nov. 26, 2005, 06:35:21 PM EST
         Looks like I hit a nerve! - (tuberculosis) - (17) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:40:46 PM EDT
             One nit - (bepatient) - (12) - Nov. 26, 2005, 03:49:30 PM EST
                 staggering losses - (rcareaga) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2005, 03:53:43 PM EST
                     I see - (bepatient) - Nov. 26, 2005, 04:08:08 PM EST
                 Nit again... - (Simon_Jester) - (4) - Nov. 26, 2005, 04:09:08 PM EST
                     Point taken - (bepatient) - (3) - Nov. 26, 2005, 05:04:31 PM EST
                         Big nit - (ben_tilly) - (2) - Nov. 26, 2005, 06:58:16 PM EST
                             I should know better. - (bepatient) - (1) - Nov. 26, 2005, 08:47:11 PM EST
                                 Right. Not by a factor of 10. - (ben_tilly) - Nov. 27, 2005, 12:47:16 AM EST
                 I was talking about monetary cost. - (tuberculosis) - (3) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:42:16 PM EDT
                     Cost of containment is $380 billion so invading was cheaper - (boxley) - (2) - Nov. 27, 2005, 10:35:19 PM EST
                         Um, box...did you read that article?? - (Simon_Jester) - Nov. 27, 2005, 10:54:44 PM EST
                         I hope their analysis is better than their OS analysis. - (Another Scott) - Nov. 27, 2005, 11:13:46 PM EST
                 To the sufficiently staggerable, anything is staggering. - (marlowe) - Dec. 3, 2005, 09:09:58 AM EST
             staggering loss of materiel maybe - (boxley) - (3) - Nov. 26, 2005, 06:38:09 PM EST
                 Add in economic casualties - start with your kids - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:42:20 PM EDT
                     nice slide from under your prognostications of doom :-) -NT - (boxley) - (1) - Nov. 27, 2005, 10:30:17 PM EST
                         Who needs prognostications - just look around. -NT - (Ashton) - Nov. 28, 2005, 05:19:06 AM EST

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