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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 05:35 AM
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50,000 'Insurgents' killed or captured in last 7 months.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050726-08330300-bc-iraq-insurgents-arrests.xml

Gen. Jack Keane, a former deputy chief of staff for the Army, told a lunch gathering sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy: "In the past six to seven months, we have killed or captured 50,000 insurgents.
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However, the Pentagon was unable to say where Keane got his figures, the Washington Times reported Tuesday.
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The Pentagon has been quoted as saying 15,000 to 16,000 Iraqis were in custody in Iraq.

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gosh! who knew there'd be so many!


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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 06:04 AM
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1. We willl never know the true number of insurgents killed in this war...
we will never know the number of Iraqi civilians killed in this war and I don't think we will know the true number of American military killed in this war.
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mopaul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 06:05 AM
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2. our own government wouldn't lie to us, surely
only democrats lie.
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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 06:20 AM
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5. That's true and mostly liberal democrats if there are any left in...
congress. bush or cheney would never lie to us because they told us so. They just get wrong information from others.
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Crankie Avalon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 06:06 AM
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3. Westmoreland's spirit lives on. (eom)
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johnmccarthy Donating Member (8 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 06:18 AM
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4. The reality of war in Iraq
http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id362.html

Warning:

The above link includes multiple pictures, most of which have obviously been taken by Americans because of the proximaty of the camera to the subject. I do not believe the photographers would put this material on the net. And yet, somehow, this information supposedly made it into the hands of the resistance. Some pictures have been posted on other sites. Some are unique in this presentation. Some are of a graphic nature.

Question arises, how did this material get into the hands of the folks that supposedly made the slide presentation?

The possibilities include: This is a 'black' psychological effort, to enflame Americans, placing the blame for this production on the 'resistance'.

Or, the 'resistance' is so sophisticated they can acquire, edit and produce such a presentation, with music, in the midst of a shooting war and distribute the finished product to those who have spread it around the globe. If this is the case, as it appears to be, especially if you are prone not to consider the black psy ops potential, then we really are in deep trouble and don't recognize that yet!

In either event, it shows what the US media is NOT showing the families and friends of the boyz and girlz they are sending off to war.

Some would call it propaganda. I'd say it was probably a fat slap in the face of the idiot who said, "Bring it on!" Boy, did they ever.

I truly believe those eligible for military service deserve to know what they are getting into BEFORE signing the bottom line, BEFORE that fatefull day. Only a combat veteran can be this emphatic.

Tell the kids! They will know what to do. They will pass it on to fellow students and others. You may wish to assist.

Thank God for the Internet.

Bests,
John
http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com

UPDATE:
http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id403.html
http://johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id404.html
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 07:32 AM
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8. That's a hell of a video
Welcome to DU!
:thumbsup:
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 09:42 AM
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13. Hi johnmccarthy!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 06:22 AM
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6. Shrubs work-fare program, is killing us all!
Edited on Wed Jul-27-05 06:30 AM by orpupilofnature57
Kkkarl's true crime, is diverting Shrubs incompetence with misanthrope acts.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 06:30 AM
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7. And How Many Of Those Captured Have Subsequently Been Released?
When you shoot them dead they stay dead and so you count them as bad guys. But when you capture them sometimes you find out that maybe they weren't bad and you release them. Of course you don't remove them from the count of captured if you release them, that would make the number look to small.

And of course you soon come to realize that if we detain some by mistake its quite possible that we may also kill a few by mistake.
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DemonFighterLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:01 AM
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9. kick nt
:kick:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:05 AM
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10. I say THEY killed over a million brown people already.
Mostly brown babies.

I think THEY plan to kill millions more.

Bushler

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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:08 AM
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11. Good work! They've killed or captured all the insurgents 3 times over!
Just like they killed the whole NVA and the VC 2 times according to their "body counts".

The insurgency hasn't "failed" it's dead.
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-27-05 08:49 AM
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12. If they're dead they must be "Insurgents"
gawd wouldn't have it any other way.


Keith’s Barbeque Central
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