U.S. Claims Success in Iraq Despite Onslaught - Body Counts Now Cited

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091801593.html

Body Counts Now Cited as Benchmarks

BAGHDAD -- Using enemy body counts as a benchmark, the U.S. military claimed gains against Abu Musab Zarqawi's foreign-led fighters last week even as they mounted their deadliest attacks on Iraq's capital.

[The Magistrate]

1. The Kiss Of Death, Sir

The flat, bald-faced confession of strategic bankruptcy and looming defeat....

"Can't nobody here play this game?"

[TahitiNut]

7. Abottoir accounting practices, sir.

:shrug:

[Erika]

2. Nixon also claimed victory,,,with peace. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. but, but, but this is oh so Vietnam

channeling the officers and men who fought that war... in particular General Westmoreland

[Lithos]

4. Everything else is failing

They have no other metrics to use as they otherwise all point to the failure that is George Bush's Iraq.

L-

[ladylibertee]

5. I have to agree with you.You are right.

[libodem]

6. I wonder what the body count has to total

before we win and can go home? I hate the idea that we have to keep blowing the arms and legs off our kids to justify the deaths of the ones who have died before them. And a life is a life, their kids have moms and dads, brothers and sisters and children....what a scandalous war. Winning their hearts and minds, bringing them democracy, v.s. 'bodycounts'...how quaint.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. Enemy body counts in Viet Nam were shown on the news every night

It was always something like 300 Viet Cong/North Vietnamese killed, 2 Americans killed and 5 wounded.

[dbt]

9. More Viet Vu Than EVER In Iraq Nam.

Body Counts, is it? "The one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history." George Bernard Shaw.

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