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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow did we get MOAB ISIS body count so damn fast????
Massive bomb, massive destruction of tunnels and country side, and yet a quickly produced body count, supposedly all ISIS, no civilians??
Ain't buying it.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)shraby
(21,946 posts)that bomb went off.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)Or they're digging people out from the rubble but I'll go with the former...
dalton99a
(81,481 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)I didn't know "moles" knew how to count.
maveric
(16,445 posts)Most of which were fabrications.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)PR departments. Hey,they got to try to earn a living. Remember most of these people that make this crap up will never ever see the real thing. Money talks and Bullshit walks. Like someone said about those Body Counts in Nam,bull shit.
DemocraticSocialist8
(396 posts)Calculating
(2,955 posts)It's simple really.
superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)That's the price tag being bandied about in right wing circles now.
What a bargain!
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)About the cost-effectiveness of war?
Eyeball_Kid
(7,431 posts)I think I'll trust the Guardian and LA Times more than Free Republic or Daily Caller.
Kath2
(3,074 posts)Body counts. Reminds me of the horrible Vietnam era.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)when i heard the 36 count or whatever it was i thought, how? This thing has a blast radius of 1 mile, if they were in the vacinity it seems like there would hardly be anything left. If they were in the tunnels, how did we get in there so quickly?
nocalflea
(1,387 posts)mitch96
(13,895 posts)Or buried. I'm actually SHOCKED they did not say there were more bodies, ah la Vietnam body counts. . Who would know?? I would think the liar in chief would say there were more than really there..
m
hunter
(38,311 posts)This bomb kills people with the pressure wave, turning their lungs to mush. They die by suffocation long before the burns kill them
Death-wise it's pretty similar to a chemical weapon.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)...knows that body counts are bullshit.
malaise
(268,980 posts)They made up shit. They don't know who they killed
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Including all of their second-in-commanders! Only the head guy and a new, very nervous second in command will be left!
Just like Vietnam, except no one is calling BS on their numbers in the press.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)It's a real life (death) example of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Drop a big bomb out in the middle on nowhere, make up numbers, how can anyone refute them.
Hell, how can you refute that there were tunnels, why did they have tunnels in the middle of nowhere.
It seems to make the press giddy.
Like, cool Trump learned how to drop bombs, he's acting like a real president now.
Sad.
mitch96
(13,895 posts)Hell, how can you refute that there were tunnels, why did they have tunnels in the middle of nowhere".
NPR has a piece yesterday about that area from an Afghan woman who lives there. She mentioned that there were a small group of IS fighters in tunnels up in the hills. She said the locals were more afraid of the Taliban than IS.. She said they are easy to spot as they are not Afghan..
Interesting piece..
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hack89
(39,171 posts)The day before the bomb was dropped a US soldier was killed there.
G_j
(40,367 posts)nobody should buy it
William769
(55,146 posts)marked50
(1,366 posts)Chemisse
(30,811 posts)But do they really have service up in those mountains, or in tunnels?
But if they did, that would be a way to loosely gauge it, I would think.
Baconator
(1,459 posts)... Make a count, drop the bomb and look for squirters afterwards during BDA.
This particular spot is not a hubbub of activity so a count is well within the realm of possibility.
trof
(54,256 posts)Baconator
(1,459 posts).. But that is on the naughty list.
HoneyBadger
(2,297 posts)Meaningless drivel