NNN0LHI
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Mon Sep-19-05 01:20 AM
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U.S. Claims Success in Iraq Despite Onslaught - Body Counts Now Cited |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/18/AR2005091801593.htmlBody 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.
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The Magistrate
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Mon Sep-19-05 01:22 AM
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1. The Kiss Of Death, Sir |
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The flat, bald-faced confession of strategic bankruptcy and looming defeat....
"Can't nobody here play this game?"
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Mon Sep-19-05 01:41 AM
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7. Abottoir accounting practices, sir. |
Erika
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Mon Sep-19-05 01:23 AM
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2. Nixon also claimed victory,,,with peace. n/t |
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Mon Sep-19-05 01:24 AM
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3. but, but, but this is oh so Vietnam |
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channeling the officers and men who fought that war... in particular General Westmoreland
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Mon Sep-19-05 01:36 AM
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4. Everything else is failing |
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They have no other metrics to use as they otherwise all point to the failure that is George Bush's Iraq.
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Mon Sep-19-05 01:38 AM
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5. I have to agree with you.You are right. |
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Mon Sep-19-05 01:41 AM
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6. I wonder what the body count has to total |
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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.
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Mon Sep-19-05 02:19 AM
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8. Enemy body counts in Viet Nam were shown on the news every night |
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It was always something like 300 Viet Cong/North Vietnamese killed, 2 Americans killed and 5 wounded.
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Mon Sep-19-05 05:12 AM
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9. More Viet Vu Than EVER In Iraq Nam. |
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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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