2007-04-30 05:42:07 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
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In Baghdad you can look at the bodies and see who the target is.
Count the bodies and weigh the tragedy to those effected.
Count the bodies and see who is successful
Count the bodies and see who is losing.
With the majority of deaths being Women and Children put it together yourself. What is the target What is the tragedy What the victory. What is the loss
Go Team Bush Go
2007-04-30 05:51:33 · answer #1 · answered by ShortBus43 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The liberals seem to think so. Some liberals say 300 dead bodies count as a war while others say that 1500 dead bodies count as a war. It only goes into supporting the Democratic Peace Theory and depends on who is president.
2007-04-30 14:37:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Depends on whose bodies they are. Hitler's body certainly isn't a tragedy or a failure. Abe Lincoln's body is definately a tragedy. Terrorists bodies are success to everyone but other terrorists. US soldiers bodies are tragedy, but not necessarily failure. Innocent Iraqi civilians bodies are both tragedy and failure.
2007-04-30 12:47:06 · answer #3 · answered by 12 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Proper accurate body counts, especially of the innocent war dead are a good way of keeping the armed forces accountable and makes them keep to their obligations under international law and the Geneva Conventions to protect civillians and only target military targets. They are a good way of keeping track of whether possible war crimes are being committed.
Not doing body counts means that soldiers can arbitrarily kill civillians knowing that there will be very little come back. I find it highly distrubing that the US military is proud of the fact that "they don't do body counts".
2007-04-30 12:57:52 · answer #4 · answered by Cardinal Fang 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Body counts are only good for counting bodies!
2007-04-30 12:46:29 · answer #5 · answered by zclifton2 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, I've always thought they were a pretty good indicator of the failure of diplomacy on the part of two or more nations.
2007-04-30 12:44:31 · answer #6 · answered by toff 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Poor measures of all three. Not that you hear body counts of the enemy, like you did durring Vietnam.
2007-04-30 12:46:43 · answer #7 · answered by B.Kevorkian 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Numbers, like statistics are meaningless, without knowing the total population for which the statistic is taken.
Whichever side of an issue you are on, you can justify your sides opinion with the same statistic.
2007-04-30 12:46:31 · answer #8 · answered by auditor4u2007 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are a lot of bodies in Iraq. Americans are winning.
2007-04-30 12:45:12 · answer #9 · answered by Rja 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wholly ineffective measure.
2007-04-30 12:47:30 · answer #10 · answered by Garth Rocket 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋