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Bloody peace (comment on this entry at LiveJournal)
Entry Date: 2004-08-26 19:11:00
Logged: 2004-08-26 19:15:45
Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Sarah McLachlan-Mirrorball-Possession
When you're fighting guerillas, peace can be bloodier than war. The US has already had more deaths in Iraq in 2004 than we had in 2003, when we invaded the country and fought against an army, and soldiers are dying at a faster rate (2.04/day vs. 1.68). Are we bad at peace or just good at war? A bit of both, I suspect...[Info from the Daily Kos]
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