Re: Coalition casualties for November

Ivan Grozny wrote:

> "George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Petukhov) wrote in message
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> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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> > > http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=27848&lang=en
> > >
> > > Coalition servicemen killed in the war against Iraq:
> > >
> > > Total announced as of 1st of December: 518 (441 US, 53 UK, 1 Denmark,
> > > 10 Spain, 1 Ukraine, 1 Poland, 18 Italia)
> >
> > While you're at it....
> > Got the figures there for Russian troops killed in Chechnya?
> > Oh and do you have the numbers of Russian troops killed in Afghanistan
> > during that action?
> > One could then run a comparison.
> > But you don't have those numbers do you.
> > You are just another anti-American stooge with a highly selective view
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>
> He also forgot to post that 3-4 million of those tough Soviet fighters were
> taken as POWs before the end of 41. He forgot post that 24 million Soviets
> died in WWII (many killed by the Soviets themselves), untold millions in the
> Soviet slave labor camps, thousands of Russian slave laborers died building
> St. Petersburg, thousands died at the hands of Inan's Oprichniki and on and
> on and on.
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> Only a relatively small number of Soviets died in Afghanistan....something
> like 30-40 thousand. But then again they were killing mostly women and
> chidren.
> Over one million Afghanis died.

Rather like the US in Vietnam then?

John