From a hard-nosed perspective, the other nominees who will not get up-or-down votes in this round can be considered casualties of war.
They were just early casualties of a war that would cost 100, 000 lives.
Finally, now's as good of a time as any to take a look at some of the peripheral casualties from this war of attrition.
Britain lost six ships and suffered hundreds of casualties in the war.
Western public opinion, it was believed, had no stomach for the sorts of casualties that a ground war would have entailed.
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One of the most notable elements in modern war is the generally lower level of its own casualties that a state will tolerate (the other side too, at least if there is a camera around).
That's because as casualties mount, people become more conscious of the war.
Its essential policy is to have sufficient forces to inflict heavy casualties on any attacker in the event of a war, while relying upon its nuclear forces to deter any conflict in the first place.
Each measure represents a week of the war, and the number of notes played per measure represents the number of casualties that week: 10 casualties in a given week result in a measure with 10 notes played.
Bush also drew a picture of his war-planning options amid a wave of sectarian and insurgent violence, continued casualties of U.S. forces and an Iraqi government that the report said is struggling to reconcile the fractious nation's many cultural differences.
He opposed the war not on principle but for fear of casualties: he had been presented with estimates that ran high as 40, 000.
These casualties tend to peak in the weeks after a war, explains Richard Lloyd, of Landmine Action, a campaign group, as people return to places that they had wrongly assumed to be safe.
The UNODA estimates that by the 1970s and '80s, 25 states were developing chemical weapons capabilities, and that since the end of the First World War, such munitions have caused more than 1 million casualties globally.
The United States is surely right to seek to minimise its own casualties, but if war can be waged by one side without any risk to the life and limb of its combatants, has a vital form of restraint been removed?
Al-Sahaf, speaking mostly in English for the first time since the war began, issued a list of civilian areas he said the coalition had bombarded, enumerating casualties in villages and neighborhoods.
That day, the bodies of the first British casualties arrived home and a poll taken by YouGov showed the first fall in support for the war since it began.
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