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NotHardly

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4. Someone should do a headlines search 2002 to 2015 for leadership "kills"...

Reply to Historic NY (Original post)

Tue Dec 29, 2015, 04:39 PM

Dec 2015

It would be, I think, interesting to find out how many "leadership kills" (commanders, terrorists, etc) in these middle eastern conflicts we claim to have killed over the years... who, what group, etc. As one member stated, it is whackamole ... but it also reminds me of the "body counts" we use to get from the media during the Vietnam war (same veracity as well).

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Paris attacks: IS commanders 'killed in US-led strikes' [View all] Historic NY Dec 2015 OP

Whack-a-mole.......... lastlib Dec 2015 #1

But Wolf Blitzer said ISIS is gonna kill us all. You know like that time Ebola killed everybody here winstars Dec 2015 #2

The surge is working!!11! Doctor_J Dec 2015 #3

Someone should do a headlines search 2002 to 2015 for leadership "kills"... NotHardly Dec 2015 #4

But were they first, second, or third in command? yellowcanine Dec 2015 #5

A fluid command structure, by its very nature is diaphanous and vacillating. LanternWaste Dec 2015 #6

I dont think a lot of people get that. 7962 Dec 2015 #7

Vietnam bodycount redux. JackRiddler Dec 2015 #9

Understood. Which is why it was kind of ludicrous to assign the 2nd designation in the first place. yellowcanine Dec 2015 #8

The "Number Two" stuff wasn't based on fuzzy intelligence! JackRiddler Dec 2015 #10

Commanders, lieutenants, foot soldiers, whatever. I'm glad they are dead. FLPanhandle Dec 2015 #11