The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117493 Message #2540209
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
15-Jan-09 - 09:03 AM
Thread Name: BS: Israel Moves in.
Subject: RE: BS: Israel Moves in.
Maybe a hyphen could make things clearer.
Nuclear-bunker busters. For busting bunkers that aspire to provide some protection against nuclear weapons. ..................................................
Only 40% women and children among those killed and less than half of those wounded. That makes all the difference then.
The truth is no one can possibly have accurate figures in a situation like this. They are estimates. There are undoubtedly dead bodies lying in bombed buildings that no one has counted yet, and wounded as well.
The majority of people in Gaza are women and children, that at any rate is beyond question. Since by no means all the men killed will in any sense have been combatants, it seems pretty evident that most of those killed and injured will have been civilians - after all that is the normal pattern in modern wars. It has definitely been the case in Afghanistan and Iraq.