Uhm... two thoughts
1. Don't we have about 100,000 men deployed in Iraq?
May be this AQ mouthpiece is talking about our military in Iraq?
2. 100,000+ people died in the nuclear blasts at Hiroshima.
http://www.airpowermuseum.org/trafter.html ____________________
Hiroshima: August 6, 1945, the uranium bomb, Little Boy, exploded at 8:16 a.m. Hiroshima time, 43 seconds after it left the B-29 Enola Gay, almost 2,000 feet above the ground. It had a yield equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT. Everything within four square miles was destroyed.
Instantly Killed:
70,000
Instantly Injured:
70,000
December 1945 total death toll:
140,000
1950 total death toll:
200,000
Nagasaki: August 9, 1945, the plutonium bomb, Fat Man, exploded 1,650 feet above Nagasaki at 11:01 a.m after it left the B-29 Bockscar. It had a force of 21,000 tons of TNT. Everything within three square miles was destroyed.
Instantly Killed:
40,000
Instantly Injured:
60,000
January 1946 total death toll:
70,000
1950 total death toll:
140,000
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki caused just a fraction of the casualties of WW II. The March 1945 fire bomb raid on Tokyo killed nearly 100,000 people and injured over 1,000,000, and the May 1945 fire bomb raid killed another 83,000. The total death toll of World War II for both Allied and Axis nations is estimated to exceed 55 million, more than half civilian.
Note: These are the official statistics quoted in a 1994 U.S. Department of Energy document. Other organizations have conducted continuous studies of their own, and continue to debate the statistics.
I thought about that, but our troops are all over the place in Iraq and not contained in one city like Hiroshima. So tops you might get 10k with a single bomb.