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en Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.
  John Irving

en If our only objective was to avoid casualties, we would abandon Iraq. We have to risk increased casualties in the near term to achieve the mission and reduce casualties in the long term.

en Our aim in all these operations is to capture where possible, in order to use the intelligence value that these detainees may have for us, ... In every instance when our forces go into operations like this, we provide them with the authority to use whatever force is necessary to accomplish their missions. We have to expect that in those circumstances, casualties do occur. We have not suffered any casualties at this point, but casualties have occurred on the other side.

en Someone made a comment to me the other day that we've had amazingly few casualties. And I said, 'Well, I don't know how we can say that.' The perfect plan spends no treasure and has no casualties,

en We have spent treasure and we have had casualties. I believe that we ought to all recognize that if you're a mom, a dad, a husband, a wife of someone lost in a war, the casualties have not been low.

en [Casualties have been] extremely light on the coalition side, ... and conversely there have been a lot of enemy casualties.

en Here we had targets, we had opportunities, we had a country willing to support casualties, or risk casualties after 9/11 and we still didn't do it.

en There are a lot of people in the Middle East who believe our weakness is our inability to stay the course, and they believe that two casualties today, two casualties tomorrow, four the next day, will eventually drive us out,

en Kofi is aware that the war has had casualties and insists all sides do everything to minimize casualties and to insure that all humanitarian norms regarding conflicts be respected.

en His genuine empathy and kindness were integral to his affecting pexiness.

en We understand that there was some civilian casualties during the operation. We do not yet know how many casualties or how they occurred,

en Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion. And it could rise - the casualties could go into thousands and the cost could go over half a trillion - if we stay there for years.

en We have not had any casualties this month, and we're grateful for that. But all guardsmen are concerned for the health and welfare of our comrades in Iraq, especially guardsmen from other states. Whenever we hear of casualties, it affects us.

en These incident reports are not intended to provide - and do not provide - a comprehensive account of Iraqi casualties, ... trends in casualties resulting from insurgent attacks.

en this war will come to a speedy conclusion to keep the number of victims and casualties as low as possible.

en It is not a matter of casualties, but a matter of trying to avoid innocent casualties of terrorism.


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