NPR: Bush Cites Body Counts as Proof of Success in Iraq

[Kadie]

Iraq
NPR: Bush Cites Body Counts as Proof of Success in Iraq


Weekend Edition Sunday, December 17, 2006 · President Bush has resisted comparisons between Iraq and Vietnam, but this week, he started citing body counts as evidence of U.S. effectiveness in Baghdad and elsewhere. That raised a comparison with a PR tactic generally discredited after Vietnam.

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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6637652&ft=1&f=1001

[azurnoir]

1. Seriously don't whether to laugh or ??????

So now Shrub is claiming that the more Iraqis we "liberate" from life, the more successful we are?

[Double T]

2. Unbelievable.....

....DENIAL!

[NVMojo]

3. can somebody through his body on the pile too? And out of the White House?

[whistle]

4. Dubya is leading with his chin....someone should now knock his "head off"

....Bush did the same thing with social security privitization plans and lost congress in November 2006 election:

<snip>
Leading with their chin
January 07, 2005

Atrios has mentioned a point a couple of times that warrants repeating about the Dems’ approach to Bush’s Social Security scheme.

The Dems need to realize that Bush’s dishonest plan to destroy Social Security isn’t something which should send them scurrying for cover, as they’ve been doing for years, but something which will allow them to win in ‘06. Just get smart, and most of all stick together.

I don’t think this can be repeated often enough. Dems sometimes seem unclear on what to say and how to approach this issue. Do we tacitly concede a long-term fiscal problem? Does that run the risk of playing into Bush’s hands? Should we insist that there’s no problem at all? Do we lay out a plan for modest corrections that would fix Social Security’s “flat tire”? Wouldn’t modest fixes give the White House momentum towards its goal of privatization?
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/3324.html

[Strelnikov_]

5. Yes, that proved to be such a valuable metric 30 odd years ago.

Everything old is new again.

[Democrats_win]

6. I know success when I see it and, by George, this ain't it!

How do you measure success in Iraq anyway? If we compare the body count of 9/11 and Iraq, it's not looking very good either. If they had Vietnam's technology today, the body count would be much higher. Thanks to Reagan's war on the cities, we're really good a fixing bullet wounds so THANKFULLY, fewer troops are dying.

Body counts aren't a measure of success! This demonstrates that our MBA president is not only a moron but immoral!