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I Ain’t No Fortunate Son

October 24th, 2005 News 6 Comments

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The military is using enemy casualty numbers as a mark of success.

We’ve done this before…

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6 Responses to “I Ain’t No Fortunate Son”

1. JWG says:

   October 24, 2005 at 7:10 am

   From the WaPo story:

   “Specific numbers are used to periodically provide context and help frame particular engagements,” said Brig. Gen. Donald Alston, director of communications for the U.S. military command in Baghdad. He added, however, that there is no plan “to issue such numbers on a regular basis to score progress.”
2. Frank_D says:

   October 24, 2005 at 9:10 am

   We also wore uniforms and used hand held weapons before, too.

   Iraq is starting to look a lot like Viet Nam, er, um … Korea, uh, I mean … World War II … that is, World War I … no, the Spanish American War … the Civil War, yeah, that’s it!
3. nawoods says:

   October 24, 2005 at 9:10 am

   …and we’ll do it again in the next war too. What’s your point?
4. BD says:

   October 24, 2005 at 10:10 am

   Wait…I thought Tommy Franks said we weren’t doing body counts.
5. TomY says:

   October 24, 2005 at 11:10 am

   Did we actually use body count figures in previous wars? I thought it was Robert McNamara’s idea for Vietnam.
6. scratch says:

   October 25, 2005 at 1:10 pm

   Hmmm..a good question for today is, “Is anyone using U.S. body counts as a mark of failure?”