Did we get daily castualty counts during all the other wars? Or are we simply getting them this time because so many oppose this war and are looking to cut on it at every turn?
2006-08-21 14:31:37 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Vietnam war was on television every night for 10 years that I can remember. They took an extra 1/2 hour to report just over the war and the body counts. Most of the time they would lie about them though so as not to alarm the American public. The Vietnamese won quite a few battles in Vietnam over poor judgment on the politicians part.
2006-08-21 14:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 15⤊ 2⤋
We didn't get daily casualty counts in WWII and Korea because communication was not good enough to transmit and gather information that quickly. Remember the movie "Saving Private Ryan"? No one knew where he was or if he was even alive. They had to go find him. We got daily casualty counts in the Vietnam war and Walter Cronkite reported them on CBS News every night. That reporting fueled the anti-war movement.
2006-08-21 14:41:04 · answer #2 · answered by waplambadoobatawhopbamboo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
im not sure about other wars ... but i can tell you for a fact the iraqi civilian body count is misrepresented ... even by sites that think they got it right they are wrong ...the deaths of pretty much innocent iraqi civilians is in the hundred of thousands ... not thousands. . theres major injustice done to those people by us. most news u hear out of iraq isnt accurate either ... there is no free press there its controlled. alot of insurgents u hear about getting killed aint nothin but unarmed civilians getting slaughtered ... cut on the war? you dont even know the half of the horror going on there. ... men, women, children ... it dont matter .. an area gets labeled as insurgents then we kill everything alive there ... thats how it is. .. thats the real war.
2006-08-21 14:48:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My first platoon commander grow to be a CWO4 (gunner) Marine who served interior the Pacific as a pvt, yet observed no try against, grow to be on the Chosin Reservoir in Korea as an NCO, and served in early Vietnam , All as a grunt or infantry Warrant Officer in a line employer. He grow to be the toughest guy or woman i'm going to have met yet.
2016-11-05 08:37:30 · answer #4 · answered by winstanley 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes we did, we also included in vietnam the body count of civilans just so we could add bodies to the count so we could state our reason to be there. We also if we could not tell the body count due to them being to burnt up we would estimate.
All this was because again they needed to make up body counts so that we could have a reason for funding and reason for being there.
2006-08-21 14:41:16 · answer #5 · answered by twism 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Vietnam we had body bags. They made us carry them back after a fire fight.There was a body count. To our dismay , the viet Cong had meat hooks and would clear the field after night battles. It was psychological warfare.
Bodies were always lined up as well as enemy
weapons.
I can still smell it , temperature got up to 130.
1965/6 USMC
2006-08-21 14:47:31 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Daily body counts began with Vietnam. Keep in mind we lost 50,000 in Vietnam. We are around 2,600 for Iraq.
2006-08-21 14:38:59 · answer #7 · answered by nobody 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We do now that we live in an age of instant gratification.
The media loves numbers. How odd that we don't have a running total of the Iraqis that are killed by the coward Muslim extremist that only attack unarmed civilians and than hide behind their women's berkas.
2006-08-21 14:51:58 · answer #8 · answered by rikv77 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't remember the first two but Vietnam we certainly did. I used to listen to Cronkite announce the numbers every night.
2006-08-21 14:37:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
you are right!! winner winner!! there was no news media involvment like there is now. no bs, can you imagine?
and I've seen numerous pictures of the returning dead from Iraq. I'm not sure where you got you informaton from about that being illegal... but ok...
2006-08-21 14:38:01 · answer #10 · answered by Emily E 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋