>Many of the US casualties died as a direct result of uranium munitions
>friendly fire. US forces killed and wounded US forces.
Or Canadian ones (in Afghanistan, one year ago today, as every Canadian
media outlet is reminding us up here), or British ones a couple of weeks
ago. This may be the first war in which more people died as a result of
'friendly fire' than of the disappearing enemy.
The central story here is more frightening, however, and does make one
wonder what exactly will happen to the ordinary people in 'the cradle of
civilization.' Moreover, on another hand, today, we hear that US forces are
trying to get the old police force back to work in Baghdad as the people
scream in fear that these too were part of Saddam's many forces. Oops?
Doug
Douglas Barbour
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he said the President said
he would not kill anyone
anymore and the way he would not kill
would be to let the killers kill
and then he would not be a killer
Eli Mandel (circa 1970)
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