Comments on Gateway Pundit: The Horror!! 19,000 Dead Terrorists in Iraq

I believe the problem here is that I can't trust a...

2007-10-18T19:56:00.000-07:00

I believe the problem here is that I can't trust a military to know when a man is a terrorist and when a man is just a normal Iraqi trying to protect his home and family. Americans would do the same thing to protect their homes I'm sure. And even if the numbers are correct, are the millions we've spent on each one of those terrorists worth it?

Either way the conflict is going, you have to admit it has only harmed us. And it will continue to harm us regardless of how many terrorists we kill. Political reconciliation is the only answer.

As Oyster at Final Draft noted:That comes to $50 m...

2007-10-18T07:39:00.000-07:00

As Oyster at Final Draft noted:

That comes to $50 million PER kill.

Those fiscal conservatives, got to hand it to them. They know how to keep a sharp eye on your tax dollars.

Watching them as they make their way into all the right pockets...

Names! The media must have names, to honor the dea...

2007-09-28T12:39:00.000-07:00

Names! The media must have names, to honor the dead by scrolling the names of thousands and thousands of war dead so that the horror of war can be pounded into our thick, incurious heads....oh, yeah. Wrong guys.
Probably all named Mohammad anyway.
Never mind.

Jim,While important information, I have never foun...

2007-09-28T10:58:00.000-07:00

Jim,

While important information, I have never found body counts like this to be a particularly useful metric of the war's effectiveness.

I am curious, though: How many Iraqi security forces on our side have been killed in that same time? How many Iraqi civilians?

Also, why do you use the word militants and terrorists as though they are interchangeable? Surely there is a difference.

Well the only problem I see is that the number is ...

2007-09-28T06:41:00.000-07:00

Well the only problem I see is that the number is three zeros shy of what it should be if we were serious about this war on terror...

Do we as a nation have to repeat the Roman lessons learned the hard way with their 3 Punic Wars?

Did anyone else notice how they said it was "over ...

2007-09-27T19:33:00.000-07:00

Did anyone else notice how they said it was "over 19,000" when describing the dead terrorists.

Do you suppose they would have used that same language if it would have been dead US soldiers or Iraqi civilians they were reporting on?

I don't think they have statistics class in middle...

2007-09-27T16:47:00.000-07:00

I don't think they have statistics class in middle school.

GP Says: "You're out of school early."Must of cut ...

2007-09-27T15:31:00.000-07:00

GP Says: "You're out of school early."

Must of cut his Statistics Class!

Glad to hear about the low casualties of US troops...

2007-09-27T14:46:00.000-07:00

Glad to hear about the low casualties of US troops this month. Hopefully, the trend will continue.

I'm not sure what xanthippas' post was intended to convey, but if it's that insurgent body counts aren't really a clear indication of improvement in Iraq, then I've got to agree. A far better indicator is continued improvement of Iraq's economy, improvement of public services like fire/police/electricity, etc. etc. There have been recent reports indicating all these things have been improving as well.

I had my doubts for a while about our efforts (not that the efforts were wrong-headed, but that they might not work), and am sincerely hoping we've "turned the corner" as some have described it.

You're out of school early.

2007-09-27T12:16:00.000-07:00

You're out of school early.

Body counts again? So I guess we have to learn thi...

2007-09-27T12:07:00.000-07:00

Body counts again?

So I guess we have to learn this lesson twice, eh?