OK, I know this is not an environmental issue, and I usually confine myself to those. But it is interesting the news story from which the text below comes is published three days after an election. Interesting and cynically manipulative that it didn't come earlier. Let's hope it's a bluff to get the insurgents scared enough to put down their arms without bloodshed.
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WITH U.S. FORCES NEAR FALLUJAH, IRAQ - The number of dead and wounded from the expected battle to retake insurgent-controlled Fallujah probably will reach levels not seen since Vietnam, a senior surgeon at the Marine camp outside Fallujah said Thursday.
Navy Cmdr. Lach Noyes said the camp's hospital is preparing to handle 25 severely injured soldiers a day, not counting walking wounded and the dead.
UPDATE: Here's the link if you want to read the whole piece.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2885271
Posted by Dave at November 5, 2004 09:56 AM