{"id":482,"date":"2007-09-27T19:13:11","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T18:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=482"},"modified":"2007-09-27T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T18:13:11","slug":"vietnam-body-counts-all-over-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam body counts all over again."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you need any further reason to think of Iraq as George Bush&#8217;s &#8216;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vietnam_War\">Vietnam War<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;. Just read this article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/iraq\/2007-09-26-insurgents_N.htm\">19,000 insurgents killed<\/a> and remember that not a single body has been confirmed by independent counts. Just like in Vietnam, the actual body counts were always inflated by several orders of magnitude. So applying the same rule, read 19,000 as 1,900 tops, which is smaller than the number of coalition force causalities, Dead causalities, not just the 25,000 Wounded coalition forces. <\/p>\n<p>So who is winning in Iraq?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you need any further reason to think of Iraq as George Bush&#8217;s &#8216;Vietnam War&#8216;. Just read this article 19,000 insurgents killed and remember that not a single body has been confirmed by independent counts. Just like in Vietnam, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=482\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vietnam body counts all over again.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,4,3,8,41,31,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracies","category-history","category-old-issues","category-politics","category-press","category-war","category-world-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}