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Article: GI Casualties Seen in Bosnia // White House Insists Troops Must Be Sent
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- November 23, 1995
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WASHINGTON American casualties are inevitable if U.S. troops are
sent to help enforce a Bosnian peace accord, the Army's top general
said Wednesday. But the White House, making the case for 20,000 or
more U.S. ground troops, said there's no choice: "It's literally
peace vs. war."
Gen. Dennis Reimer, chief of staff of the Army, which would do
most of the work in Bosnia, said U.S. troops are well trained but
still vulnerable.
"If we make a commitment to this, we've got to expect some type
of casualties," Reimer said. "We've got to be able to withstand
those casualties."
The four-star general made no estimate of how many might get
killed.
The timing of U.S. troop movements remained ...