Sites Holmquist trys, and often fails, to go no more than a couple of days without visiting (some of which Holmquist regularly swipes links from without attribution)
The Air Force is preparing to fly as many as 1,500 sorties a day if there is war with Iraq and is seriously concerned about the public relations backlash from an expected high level of collateral damage, according to a 104-page report, portions of which were obtained by ABCNEWS.
If a real war happens, civilain deaths, or, to use the official term, "collateral damage," are likely to be high. That said, my guess is that a "public relations backlash from an expected high level of collateral damage" is unlikely. Once -there is no longer seems to be a need to say, "if"- the escalation of the war starts, flags will start flying and it will probably be considered "anti-American" to oppose the war effort as "our boys" and girls will be over there fighting to protect us from Saddam or whatever else the rationale of the moment is by then. posted by micah holmquist at 1/25/2003 12:13:00 PM
