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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums@SecPompeo keeps saying "over the last 10 days we killed 1000 Taliban". Where is this story?.
Was it under Trump that the US military stopped doing Kill body counts?? I really do not recalll.
Bruce A. Heyman
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So I have watched multiple morning shows and @SecPompeo
keeps saying over the last 10 days we killed 1000 Taliban. Where is this story?. How do interviewers just let that pass without follow up questions on details? 1000 killed by US military and no real details.
Link to tweet
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Bruce A. Heyman
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Today on multiple Sunday broadcasts @jaketapper
@MeetThePress
@amyklobuchar
sounded very Presidential. Strong and yet extraordinarily thoughtful. Midwestern sensibility is whats needed in our @WhiteHouse
Vinca
(50,168 posts)superpatriotman
(6,232 posts)Starting with the entire executive branch
Enough of this bullshit. Enough.
walkingman
(7,505 posts)and I would like to understand how the death of 1000 Taliban is"fighting for my freedom"? It just seems like we are making more enemies?
tetedur
(814 posts)if they fight back, or retaliate we call the whole thing off if they kill our men?
Doesn't that seem a little weird? Wouldn't a cease fire be the first order of business if you want to talk peace?
Igel
(35,191 posts)Meaning, "loss of short-term memories."
Last week there were two Taliban attacks. Not suicide bombings, but attacks on towns that had to be fended off. I'd guess that those "struggles" yielded more than a few Taliban dead, between fighting in the towns and air strikes outside of town.
I also think that "1000" isn't meant to have four significant figures, but one. In scientific notation it would be 1 x 10^3, not 1.000 x 10^3. So perhaps 800, perhaps 1200. But clearly significantly more than 500 and fewer than 1500. That seems plausible as an estimate, without being a body count.
https://www.france24.com/en/20190901-afghanistan-forces-secure-kunduz-taliban-attacks-second-city-usa
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)SWBTATTReg
(21,856 posts)And we need to go aggressively after those who are aiding in the lying and abetting of the truth. Everyone of these administration officials, etc. need to go to jail for lying to the public. It doesn't hurt just democrats, it hurts all of us when these planned fabrications are uttered in order to protect someone's stupid ego.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)In fact, the whole Trump Cabinet and every one of his appointees