Hawke wrote:
"Spehro Pefhany" wrote in message
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On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 22:33:04 -0500, the renowned "tonyp"
wrote:


"Too_Many_Tools" wrote


"Even taking a conservative approach, we have been surprised at how
large they are," said the study, referring to total war costs. "We can
state, with some degree of confidence, that they exceed a trillion
dollars."


Let's see: 25 million Iraquis. Spending $4 on each one equals $100
million. Spending $40 gets you to $1 billion. So, $1 trillion is

$40,000

per "liberated" Iraqui.

Who says freedom is priceless?

-- TP


What does that work out to per gallon?



How many dead Americans does it work out to? We're all hearing the number of
Americans killed in the Iraq war is somewhere around 2,200 right now. Now, I
can't confirm this, but I have heard that number is basically faked to make
it seem like the losses are far less than they really are. What I have heard
is that the way the military counts war dead is by only counting those
actually killed on the ground in Iraq as part of the 2,200.
No, it is EVEN WORSE! If you catch an enemy bullet, or get blown up
by an IED, they have to count you as a war casualty. But, if your
Bradley or Humvee goes off a bridge avoiding a possible IED, that is NOT
counted as a combat casualty, but as an "accident"! If your truck blows
a tire while you are dodging an RPG attack, and rolls over and kills
you, they count it as a "vehicle accident".
Supposedly, if
four soldiers are hit by an IED and one is dead on the spot and the other
three are still alive and are taken away in choppers but die somewhere else
they are not counted as killed in Iraq. Like I said, I don't know if this is
true or not but from what I have heard the real number of American troops
killed in closer to 10,000.

This particular scenario probably would be counted as a combat casualty,
if the wounds are from the enemy action. But, there are so many things
that go wrong and get people killed. For instance, friendy fire
accidents are not chalked up to combat unless they get a lot of press.

Yes, the total US dead is at or over 10,000 now. There's a web site
that had amassed some data on the "non-combat" deaths and injuries,
but I can't find it now. It was quite a shock to me to see how the
administration is covering this up. In Vietnam, we faked the enemy
"body count". Now, we are faking OUR OWN "body count"! Incredible,
disgusting, maybe a new kind of war crime, to not let us know what the
real cost of this war is!

Jon