Why is it that we all know how many US troops have been killed in Iraq but we never...........................

Question

hear the TOTAL number of terrorists that have been killed in Iraq over the last 6 years?

I know it's probably a lib media plot to maybe only give out the number of US troops lost but why has Bush never, ever, given the exact total number of terrorists killed in Iraq? Don't you think it would be very helpful to know how many terrorists US troops in Iraq have killed?

Or might it be because Bush/US military have no idea how many they've terrorists they've killed? And how the heck can you win a war when you have no idea how many terrorists you killed?

Answer 1

The media and certain politicians long ago made it politically incorrect to report enemy bodies.

The military no longer officially tracks the information. This runs back to Viet Nam where we killed millions of the enemy and it was considered to be unfair that we only lost 58,000

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Answer 2

I agree with you. This is also emboldening and making the enemy more powerful. If the whole story was put out, the terrorists/insurgents would be widely hated.

For example:
An attack occurs, and the casualties are as follows:
2 soldiers
19 civilians
5 contractors
Media only covers the two soldiers which makes it look to the general public (locals as well sometimes) that the terrorists/insurgents are courageous and after the infidels. However, they really killed more Iraqis than Americans.

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you mean by terrorist. Because your neighbor can become a terrorist recruited by organizations like al Qaida.

But I always hear people report number of enemies killed in major battles and major operations in Iraq. So I'm not sure what the big problem is.

And if they do post total number of enemies killed wouldn't people accuse gov of using that number as some type of propaganda campaign????

Answer 4

Before 1980 I taught "Politics of Violence and Revolutionary Change" at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. I also taught political statistics. The one axiom I taught in both courses was the following: When we cannot count the things that are important, we tend to ascribe importance to the things we can count."

Counting US military casualties seems to be possible, but it does not reflect what was important about those people or their commitment. Counting terrorist deaths is almost certainly impossible because definitions of "terrorist" would differ greatly and because the "fog of war," battlefield danger, and general chaotic situation would make meaningful counts hard even to estimate. Cheers

Answer 5

first of all war is NOT about killing its about wounding the enemy hence the code of honor (that got thrown out the window of every U.S. troop thats ever been shot at.) and uh basically where just out there spraying these pricks we aint countin .kill em all. no really think about it. we bomb a building that has a 100 iraqs. but we only seen 10 (hypethetically) theres no way to count all them pieces we'd be there for weeks just tryin to put em together. now on the other hand we always know how many U.S. troops dont come back. you get what im saying? besides that we're losing and bush don't want to admit it.

Answer 6

I remember in the sixties Walter Cronkite used to put up U.S. casualties and NVA casualties and it was like a score board. I think after Viet Nam they found that the numbers were inflated for the NVA to make the US feel like the war was going our way when, nothing could have been further from the truth. After that the body counts have been an internal thing.

Answer 7

Well, I'm not sure the Bush administration makes that much of a distinction between terrorists and Iraqi civilians, so it might be embarassing for them to say that they've caused the death of 100,000 Iraqis and "some of them must have been terrorists".

Answer 8

because the difference between a terrorist and an Arab has been blurred. thousands of Arabs have been killed in Iraq..... How many are terrorists and how many are innocent civilians will never be known.

Bush is creating more terrorists by the day than we can kill!!! do you understand that the number of terrorist is growing by the day thus the number you are looking for is futile!!!!!!!

Answer 9

we've come an prolonged thank you to verify something referred to as Civilization. permit's not confuse the guy US soldier with the a hundred,000 stable military of u . s . a .. The eventual Victory or the failure of the army is what counts. even with the reality that with all the extreme tech and enterprise, it may be achieveable to execute a lifestyles sentence on him extremely than dying penalty that's basically as inhumane as him killing a million million of his countrymen. the reality that he will stay a painful lifestyles is greater befitting than an excuse for his kin to combat lower back becuause for each action there's a reaction so that's never going to end that way. yet i think of united states has no interest in protecting peace in Irak and that they're going to make confident Saddam is completed so further and further Iraki extremist die - attitude a million - divide & rule attitude 2 - greater civilians die by struggling with one yet another so greater suitable that's as that's not u . s . a . military who's killing them that's basically that they are barbarians. attitude 3 - the quantity of Oil which would be gained in spite of each and everything this turmoil is direclty share to the weak point of the relax inhabitants in Iraq - submit to in suggestions it will be the foolhardy maximum useful who will die in civil wars after Saddam's dying. Stragety 4 - this complete element proves the reality that for the period of basic terms america of a can handle, carry and nurture significant Wealth (oil). The Lion has made its kill, the vultures are waiting in the place. Justice? no that's the whole ingredient approximately issues organic.

Answer 10

Body counts don't prove much anyway. Over the course of history, this Iraq mess has been a pretty "sterile" war. Can you imagine what people would have thought on D-Day if today's media were reporting...and who won that war?