The Unreality of War

Excuse the many typos, folks! must`ve been warred out of my grammatical wits when typing this piece.
Trust t won`t fly off the handle. :)

MATHEMATICS OF TRUTH & STATISTICS OF LIES

Both Iraq and invading Anglo-Americans are in a kind of catch 22 situations, regarding the declaration of casualties of war. On one hand Iraqi administration has to show the human toll as less as possible to keep the morale of its people up and on the other hand invaders have to show that they are on the mission of mercy as they claimed. So both sides are lying to their teeth as far as statistics of human toll is concerned. If the invaders are ``militarily`` successful after their invasion they will still downplay the casualties and no one will believe Iraqis because we as humans have a tendency of not believing the losers. So, as someone had said, that the first casualty of any war is the truth, I must add that the last casualty of any war is also the truth.

But mathematics never lies. Let us try to see what truth the truth of mathematics reveals to us.

Fact: Germany 13th February 1945

City : Dresden

Population: 650,000

Air Defense: Virtually none, because Dresden was never a significant town from German military point of view and has so far not been attacked by Allied forces either.

Invaders: Britain and USA

First day air raid: 773 British Avro Lancaster bombers bombed Dresden

2nd day air raid: 527 US air force heavy bombers bombed Dresden

Casualties: Allied sources put the figure around 135,000 civilians dead, whereas German sources put the figure around 250,000 dead. Truth is somewhere between these statistics.

Comparison: Hiroshima 70,000 died in American nuclear attack; 51,509 British civilians killed by German air raids in the whole second world war.

Fact: Baghdad, March 2003

City : Baghdad

Population: 4.8 Million

Air Defence: Virtually none, all surface to air missiles have been destroyed by UN inspectors. The radar and SAM missile batteries are useless against Stealth Bombers and Cruise Missiles.

Invaders: Britain and US

Air Raids: During first two days of air strikes, allied invaders launched 320 Tomahawk missiles and more than 1,000 combat sorties against Baghdad and other targets in Iraq.

Casualties: YOU DO THE MATH

APPEAL: I appeal to the all people with live conscience, in this world to raise their voice against this madness. Please show courage to tell them that you don’t want to drive your cars with human blood.