Bourgeois Deviant: Body Counts as Bench Mark?

Monday, September 19, 2005

Body Counts as Bench Mark?

From today's WP:

By Ellen Knickmeyer
Washington Post Foreign Service
Monday, September 19, 2005; Page A01

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. (Wonkette)

This is EXACTLY what they did in Vietnam. I smell endgame and it isn't going our way.

Labels: Abu Musab Zarqawi, body counts, Ellen Knickmeyer, Vietnam, Washington Post, Wonkette

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