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People need to know the difference
I see people (including Congressmen) saying that Americans have died because they dont know the difference.
Link to tweet
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sarisataka
(18,821 posts)Not all casualties are fatalities
USAFRetired_Liberal
(4,167 posts)Scrivener7
(51,053 posts)leftstreet
(36,117 posts)I clicked the tweet looking for context
ugh
USAFRetired_Liberal
(4,167 posts)Which I saw on CNNs website. And it wasnt meant to actually click on the link, but just to show his ignorance.
https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/afghanistan-news-taliban-refugees-08-26-21-intl/h_6975f2ca34e5365e4026e505fa1c1ceb
Harker
(14,056 posts)It's their life's blood.
So to speak.
Turbineguy
(37,375 posts)Jim Banks and his traitor tot cohorts.
Johonny
(20,913 posts)Wait suddenly they give a shit about people dying in Afghanistan. Does he think before today it was 20 years of magic unicorns and reach arounds?
USAFRetired_Liberal
(4,167 posts)It hasnt cost an American life based on reports so far when the media and military say casualty it doesnt necessarily mean death.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Americans have died.
edited to add: per the US Ambassador in Kabul.