Original Message: ----------------- From: Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:06:01 +1000 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: I have a new hero
On 21/04/2007, at 5:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I guess that depends on what "the sort of thing" means. Clearly, >> we don't >> lose 30 Americans in Iraq every day....I'm not even sure we have >> lost 30 >> Americans since the conclusion of major combat. >What, since Bush declared "Mission accomplished"? Yes..my memory is that, to use a medical term, that our losses have been a chronic problem...not an acute problem since then. We lose 2 one day, don't lose any for two days, lose 7, lose 3, lose none, lose, 1, lose 5, etc. >At "Mission Accomplished", US deaths stood at 139. It is now, as of >April 20, 3316. >Since "Mission Accomplished", that's 3177. Since the handover on 29th >June 2004, the US has lost 2457. Since the Iraq elections, 1879 >American soldiers have died in Iraq. >I think that statement above is the most wrong I think you've ever >been about anything, Dan. Nah, I was just unclear....middling unclear by my estimations....but I guess I should let others judge that. If you look at the earlier in the thread, the discussion was about losses in one day. We clearly couldn't lose 30 every day, because that would be 10k/year...far more than we lost...that was my first statement. My second statement also referred to a single day loss. I don't remember any given day in which >=30 Americans were killed.....except possibly for a day in the first week of combat. That was my qualifier. I realize that I didn't write 30 _in a given day_ again because I tend to drop modifiers after using them a couple times if I think the context makes the modifier obvious. Probably a bad writing habit, but there you go. Dan M. -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web.com – Enhanced email for the mobile individual based on Microsoft® Exchange - http://link.mail2web.com/Personal/EnhancedEmail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
