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REGISTER TO VOTE 12-Jul-2007 At 2:11:27 PM BigMike

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On 12/07/2007 bne wrote:

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>and the news headlines:
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>100 Australian soldiers died in iraq this month (but they were all murderers,
>so its ok)

I doubt that many would want that, or subsequently say that. And it's fortunate - for the soldiers and their families, as well as the coalition - that Australia has yet to suffer a combat fatality in Iraq.

But a figure of 100 a month compares with some of the estimates of civilian deaths in Iraq.

Which are running around 50 people ...

... a day.

Consider, 88 Australians died in the Bali blast, and think of the effect that had on the national psyche. Now imagine something like that happening every 48 hours.

But at least those Iraqis are dying so that Al Qaeda can be defeated...

Or was it, so that Saddam's weapons of mass destruction could be disabled.

Oh hang on, Brendan Nelson had an attack of truth-telling recently and mentioned it was for oil after all...