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2008-04-21 Iraq

Baghdad Bob aka Comical Ali, is he back?

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-21 02:35|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Ha! The Lancet claims 444,000.

Posted by ed 2008-04-21 07:53|| 2008-04-21 07:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Harry Reid, is that you?

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-21 09:12|| 2008-04-21 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Green card people aren't counted? Mass graves? This guy must also be writing for Daily Kos.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-21 09:41|| 2008-04-21 09:41|| Front Page Top

#4 This always drives me nuts. There have been 4032 US *fatalities* as of this writing. There have been somewhat more than 31,000 US casualties requiring evac - it starts getting hazy when you try to count actual woundings, because a certain percentage don't require evacuation, and my source has stopped listing the latter catagory.

But the above article manages to hit a double-fault - one side counts an (inflated?) casualty list as fatalities, while the other side calls the fatality list the casualty list in the course of rebutting the first side.

I rather blindly threw around the 40,000 casualty number myself earlier this month - applying the 10-to-1 ratio I've been hearing thrown around throughout this conflict. But I got the ~31,000 number from here.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2008-04-21 11:37|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2008-04-21 11:37|| Front Page Top

#5 If you count John Kerry type wounds, the casualty count would be in the millions.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-21 12:19|| 2008-04-21 12:19|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't forget the near misses in Bosnia of the former first--whatever.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-04-21 21:32|| 2008-04-21 21:32|| Front Page Top

#7 I miss BaghdadBob's style he had some panache and he would have made a good press secretary for Hillary or Barack.

I wonder if he has a current resume

Posted by James Carville 2008-04-21 21:53|| 2008-04-21 21:53|| Front Page Top

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