Saturday, November 13, 2004
Some 300+ Casulties from "A Mostly Empty Fallujah"
E&R: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, in Iraq0 comments
For months, the U.S. military has said it worked to avoid "body counts," so as to dispel any similarities with Vietnam.
So, now that the shrapnel has met the torso, as it were, and we're sending waves of bombers raining god-knows-how-many-tons of bombs for no clear military purpose on a Fallujah that has been mostly deserted, while the rest of Iraq is in flames, here come the self-aggrandizing "1,000,000 Served"-type reports of "600 insurgents killed."
Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said Thursday there have been "hardly any, if any, civilian casualties so far."
And God didn't make Whoppers with fries.
One can only assume that these reports are as bogus as the ones Gen. William Westmoreland was so good at conjuring during the Sixties and Seventies.
posted by Gotham 1:17 AM
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