So They Noticed Our Death Toll Is Low...

But predictably they went straight into spin.

by Rod D. Martin
January 2, 2007

The Associated Press got around to noticing yesterday that America's death toll is unbelievably low compared to all past wars, just 3,000 after four years compared to 58,000 in Vietnam or 20,000 in just one battle (the Battle of the Bulge) in World War II (and let's not even think about the Civil War).

Of course as soon as they notice they go straight into spin.  And in noticing, they fail to mention that the reason for this discontent is simple:  the media has spent every single day of the last four years hyping these casualties as if three million had died, not three thousand.

But in fact, the truth is all too clear:  it has taken four years, the fall of not one but two unbelievably evil regimes (in Iraq and Afghanistan), the liberation of 50 million people, and all the foreign terrorists al Qaeda and Iran can muster to bring U.S. war casualties up to the level of innocent U.S. civilians Osama's thugs killed on just one day back in September 2001.

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