Body Counts; unlike in 'Nam, Pentagon only trying to fool everyone else

[LynnTheDem]

The military and political future of Iraq remains so uncertain that the Pentagon in recent months has gone back to the Vietnam-era practice of citing bodycounts as measures of success.

If there’s good news, it’s that while the Pentagon may obscure this grim reality in public presentations, it doesn’t seem to be kidding itself, as it did in Vietnam. An accidentally declassified Pentagon report about a killing on the road to Baghdad airport at the beginning of March shows quite clearly how much worse the overall situation is than the Bush administration would like us, or even its allies in the Coalition forces, to believe.

More at link;

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7818807/site/newsweek

[ariellyn]

1. Sickening nt

[LynnTheDem]

2. Yep. And standard MO for the USA.

Vietnam on crack.