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Anthony Ord  
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 More options Apr 13 1999, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy, comp.os.linux.advocacy, gnu.misc.discuss
From: n...@rollingthunder.demon.co.uk (Anthony Ord)
Date: 1999/04/13
Subject: Re: Who's better for America, Gates or Linus?
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On 11 Apr 1999 16:50:09 -0700, t...@halcyon.com (Tim Smith)
wrote:

>Todd Bandrowsky <tbandrow...@del.net> wrote:
>>True.  But WWI wasn't really a big deal for the United States and by the
>>time we were involved the British had already more or less won it with the
>>blockade.

>That "already more or less won" war still managed to cost 50000 American
>lives.  That's more than Korea or Vietnam cost.  

In the first *DAY* of the Somme, the British had 57,450
casualties.

Just to put things into perspective.

>Seems like a big deal to
>me.

You aren't even in the right order of magnitude.

>--Tim Smith

Regards

Anthony
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