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Minority Report
Hitchens, Christopher | March 25, 1991 issue

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In their anxiety to do nothing that can be construed as reminiscent of Indochina, the U.S. military authorities are avoiding anything in the nature of a "body count" for Operation Desert Storm. Saudi sources have spoken of Iraqi casualties, for soldiers only, in the range of 80,000 to 100,000. Other estimates put the toll as low as 50,000. It now seems that on their way out of Kuwait the Iraqi forces indulged in an additional saturnalia of looting and mayhem. The fantastic, exemplary bloodletting that took place after the ostensible issue of the conflict had been decided was in that tradition.

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MILITARY offenses -- United States; MILITARY policy; IRAQ -- Military relations -- United States; WAR casualties; INTERNATIONAL relations; IRAQ; UNITED States
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