If you remember back to the days at the peak of the war in Vietnam, you will recall listening to reports on television news each Monday or Tuesday night (I can't remember which one now any longer) about the weekly casualty toll. The report would begin with how many Americans had been killed in Nam in the last week, then we'd see how many Americans had been wounded (the number of wounded was always about 10 times the number killed) and then the report would end with the number of North Vietnamese killed. That number was always about 100 times the number of Americans killed. The idea was to give the American public the idea that we were "winning" the war in Vietnam by killing the hell out of the "enemy." (And we know how that story ended).
Although the loyal Bushie news media do not like to do it, they are still telling us how many American kids have died for a lie in Iraqnam. And just like those before them from the Vietnam era, that same media regularly tells us how many Iraqis have been killed. Invariably the number of Iraqis killed is always much larger than the number of Americans. Just like 35 years ago, that is supposed to make us think we are winning the war.
Today we have this story on the latest toll of Iraqi freedom fighters killed by US and coalition forces (the coalition of the willing is now down to Albania and Poland).
About 10,000 U.S. soldiers using heavily armored Stryker and Bradley fighting vehicles fought their way into an al-Qaida sanctuary northeast of Baghdad early Tuesday. American and Iraqi forces, under cover of attack helicopters, killed at least 22 insurgents, the military said.
Makes you feel proud of Bush to be such a great smoker out and gitter doesn't it? I know I feel safer. Heckuva job, Dubya.
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