Revelation. Do You Even Remember the Gulf War ?

[Hueij]

Gulf War? You mean the one with the Smart Bombs that turned out not to be so smart after all?

[SlowwHand]

You mean like the ones directed right through bunker doors, Hueij ?

As always, your spam is welcome.

[Hueij]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
You mean like the ones directed right through bunker doors, Hueij ?

As always, your spam is welcome.

Thanks.

No, I mean the one that opened that small bathroom window, entered, walked down the stairs, disarmed a guard, opened the door and exploded...

I meant the ones they DIDN'T show us on CNN.

[Sandman]

Given that all the estimates, short of the very early reports, put this figure at or under 35,000, there's probably a good reason for that. Like it's wrong.

Here's a non-early report which gives Iraqi casualties at 85,000, so not 'all' the estimates give at or under 35,000.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/iraq/nirq055.htm

It's not a great source, I'll admit. Some estimates, however, give Iraqi casualties in the low thousands.

[Edan]

Originally posted by Sandman


Here's a non-early report which gives Iraqi casualties at 85,000, so not 'all' the estimates give at or under 35,000.

Hmm. That site lists wounded and killed. I was reffering to only killed, so I'll recant my statement that there they list at most 35,000 casualties. The death toll is 35,000 or less.


Here is another estimate.

[Thud]

Well, apparantly a lot of Europeans can't even remember 9/11, and that wasn't even 2 years ago.

Yes, I remember the Gulf War.

[Alinestra Covelia]

I remember the Gulf War. My favorite band, Queen, reached #1 in the charts with their 6-minute long Bolero-inspired magnum opus called Innuendo, which combined a masterful blended musical style of military march, folk dance, orchestral majesty, and hard rock. Within months, Freddie Mercury was dead of AIDS and had become a figurehead for AIDS awareness, recognized from Britain to Berlin, Moscow to Tokyo.

Oh yeah - and America fought and won a war too. I think there was a lot of patriotism and rhetoric about that but it was hard to tell because I was in the UK at that time. All I knew for sure was that the news channels didn't seem to know crap about the war - they just showed glossy computer graphics and a few vague green-saturated images of tank shells flying off into the distance. Later, it was revealed that the Western press had been forbidden from entering Iraq without specific army approval.

They say that the power of the press was instrumental in stopping the war in Vietnam.

Looks like the American leadership learns quickly.

[Goingonit]

I was all of 3 years old, but I do remember it.

[Sandman]

Hmm. That site lists wounded and killed. I was reffering to only killed, so I'll recant my statement that there they list at most 35,000 casualties. The death toll is 35,000 or less.

The death toll figure ranges from extremely high figures of 200,000 to extremely low figures of just 3000. I have to admit that the lower figures have slightly more argument behind them, so I've been swayed downwards during the debate. It'll be a long time before we find out the truth, however.

[Sarxis]

How can I forget it? They showed it every damned day in 10th grade on the High School news station 'Channel 1'.

That, and every kind of candy bar and tennis shoe commercial imaginable.

[Dinner]

I had just entered high school at the time (I was in 9th grade). I'm not ancient like Ming or Rah but I'm not a young pup like some of you.

BTW I remember it very well & living in a military town it was a very big deal.

[Eli]

We were in Russia back then and had the tickets for Israel exactly for the date of the beginning of the war. Obviously we postponed the flight when things got serious.

For me, being 5 years old, it meant one thing. My 6th birthday will be celebrated in Russia, but my sister's 4th birthday already in Israel. That was so unfair.
It took a few days of endless crying for me to accept the harsh reality.

[Az]

heh, a Squd virgin!

[TheGuitarist]

I'm in 9th grade and we get Channel1 now, Oba. Good God, they're stupid. Why anyone hoping to have a decent career in journalism would become a Channel1 reporter is beyond me.

The commercials are massively irritating as well.

[Shi Huangdi]

I was a little kid at the time but even then you don't forgetting stuff like wars....