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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 08:03 PM
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Blinded by the light at the end of the tunnel
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1512412,00.html


On June 21, network news reported that the Pentagon had claimed that 47 enemy operatives had been killed in Operation Spear in western Iraq. Last month, the Pentagon declared 125 had been killed in Operation Matador, near the Syrian border. "We don't do body counts on other people," Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defence, stated in November 2003.
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