You seem to not understand the context I was replying too, nor what I said. > 1,700 air sorties and over 500 cruise missiles impacting and broadcast live to yo

You seem to not understand the context I was replying too, nor what I said. > 1,700 air sorties and over 500 cruise missiles impacting and broadcast live to your living room. I wonder what the death toll from that night was.. 10,000? More? This was the initial comment I was replying to, about the shock and awe campaign (read: Rapid Dominance). Since finding numbers for JUST the shock and awe is virtually impossible (since it was only about 48 hours), I expanded the time period to the entire "invasion phase", which was the initial military incursion period, not the entirety of the war. The "invasion phase" ends when you got your troops in country and footholds established. This was all to correct that idea that 10,000 or more people died in two days (March 19th - March 21st, 2003). Even according the IBC (the most inflated numbers I could find) the end of shock and awe period numbers where at a maximum 1,174 April 2003 Min: 996 Max: 1,174 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Body_Count