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I'm not going to give a number partly because it IS impossible to come up with any reliable one. What you kind of have to do is extrapolate from all the information you do know. Combined with a bit of common sense.
For example, the 100,000 is said to come from air strikes. OK, in such a situation you would expect to also see a higher number of wounded - not just higher actually but much higher, in ratios of like 3 to 1. In order for that to be the case we would have reporting on the massive humanitarian nightmare, more kids without arms and legs, etc. When half the country is essentially at peace it would represent an emormous percentage of the population in the rest of it.
And what you have now, with the net, is a large population of people with an interest in passing along horrible "news" without much interest in confirming any of it. Of course in this case a necessary belief that the US Mil is 100% evil is also necessary, else the "news" would not be passed along.
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11-16-2004, 10:57 AM
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