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Quote of the week

"There's nothing good that can come of it. We win, we lose. We lose, we lose."
-- A U.S. Army operations officer in Najaf laying out the possible outcome of any strike on the sacred Imam Ali mosque.

Meanwhile good to know:

While the deaths of American military personnel in Iraq have quite rightly gotten a good deal of news coverage, it's worth noting the other casualties of the war. According to a database compiled by the goup Iraq Body Count, so far the conflict in Iraq breaks down as follows:

- U.S. military deaths: 936

- Deaths among non-U.S. coalition forces: 125 (64 British)

- Iraqi civilian (non-combatant) deaths: 11,510-13,483

Posted on August 14, 2004
in Limit of my knowledge

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