"We don't do body counts." This blunt response to a question about civilian casualties was an attempt to distance Bush's wars from the disaster of Vietnam. One ritual of that earlier conflict was the daily announcement of how many enemy fighters US forces had killed. It was supposed to convince a skeptical American public that victory was coming.
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8.01.2008
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