Are American Casualties Drastically Undercounted?
It would fly in the face of all logic if they weren't.
Our warmongers have a vested interest in maintaining illusions to keep their filthy operations going, at least for the home crowds. Which is why every effort has been made to keep Foxified dullards ignorant of their murderous ways. During the Bush mob years war corpses were flown back to the US in the dead of night and pictures of coffins were restricted. There were so many military funerals that buglers were in short supply and taps was played by pre recording.
But still, over the years, deaths in empire's wars were officially recorded at maximum maybe two or three a day, as if that was an acceptable rate that mouthbreathers could agreeably digest. Since Obama grabbed the baton and ran with it nothing's changed, we're still being told a couple of soldiers here were blown up, there's a casualty there, same business day after day, year after year.
Does this make any sense? Of course not. Sending hundreds of thousands of troops to maintain a hated occupation in numerous countries means that at various times some bad shit goes down, if for no other reasons than the enraged homeboys get lucky or the occupiers get unlucky. But we never hear about instances like that unless perhaps a helicopter goes down because it's much harder to squash that sort of news. It's always a droning, consistent one or two deaths day after day.
On the other hand the resistance would want to maximise the invaders' casualties to boost morale, something like these reports which in my view are fanciful numbers along the lines of what our war criminals make up, only in the other direction. Let's be honest, the truth probably lies in the middle with a dozen or so dead every day and a bunch more wounded, but we'll never be told real numbers beyond that daily trickle.
And there was one event several years ago that proves our criminals are consummate liars.
On October 10, 2006, resistance in Iraq sent some rockets into the largest weapons depot in the country, forward base Falcon, and got lucky.
"At the time of reporting, mountains of American arms and ammunition were continuing to explode in the sky in a huge fire unprecedented in Baghdad’s history. In response, US aircraft hysterically rocketed and bombed various parts of the city, the correspondent reported, trying to knock out the launch sites of the rockets that blasted into the American arsenal. A source in the Iraqi puppet regime told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Resistance blasted the American arsenal, known as Camp Falcon, with Grad and Katyusha rockets"
"The source said that the US forces were unable to do anything to stop the massive inferno of flame and explosions that was lighting up the Baghdad sky like fireworks. Reuters reported the puppet regime’s “Iraqiyah” television network as showing pictures of a huge fire lighting up the night sky. Reuters reporters in central Baghdad heard more than 30 explosions, which began at about 11pm local time Tuesday night.
This is the Youtube I posted about this unprecedented event. I found a video taken by a television camera in Baghdad that was 11 miles away, looking south. Watch what happens about four minutes into it.
American propaganda told us there were no casualties that night.
But the disaster was so catastrophic that the truth was out immediately, and over 300 service personnel had died in that one event.
Here are their names
"When the flames had been brought under control on the morning of the 11th of October, primarily because the entire camp had been gutted, nine large American military transports with prominent Red Cross markings were observed by members of the foreign media taking off, laded with the dead and the wounded.
Over 300 American troops, including U.S. Army and Marines, CIA agents and U.S. translators were casualties and there also were 165 seriously injured requiring major medical attention and 39 suffering lesser injuries 122 members of the Iraqi armed forces were killed and 90 seriously injured members of same, were also evacuated to the U.S. military hospital at al-Habbaniyah located some 70km west of Baghdad.
Satellite pictures and aerial photographs from neutral sources showed that Camp Falcon suffered major structural damage and almost all the U.S. military’s supply of small arms ammunition, artillery and rocket rounds, tons of fuel, six Apache helicopters, an uncounted but large number of soft-skinned vehicles such as Humvees and supply trucks were damaged or totally destroyed. Foreign press observers noted “an endless parade” of military vehicle recovery units dragging burnt-out heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers to another base outside Baghdad.
Many of the walls and towers of the camp were damaged or leveled as were many of the barracks, maintenance depots, and there was considerable damage to the huge mess halls that could hold 3000 soldiers, the huge recreation center with its basketball courts and indoor swimming pools and all the administration buildings
Although official U.S. DoD statements indicated that there were no deaths; that only a hundred men were inside the base guarding billions of dollars of vital military equipment and that there were “only two minor injuries to personnel,” passes belief and certainly reality is more painful than propaganda."
Our warmongers have a vested interest in maintaining illusions to keep their filthy operations going, at least for the home crowds. Which is why every effort has been made to keep Foxified dullards ignorant of their murderous ways. During the Bush mob years war corpses were flown back to the US in the dead of night and pictures of coffins were restricted. There were so many military funerals that buglers were in short supply and taps was played by pre recording.
But still, over the years, deaths in empire's wars were officially recorded at maximum maybe two or three a day, as if that was an acceptable rate that mouthbreathers could agreeably digest. Since Obama grabbed the baton and ran with it nothing's changed, we're still being told a couple of soldiers here were blown up, there's a casualty there, same business day after day, year after year.
Does this make any sense? Of course not. Sending hundreds of thousands of troops to maintain a hated occupation in numerous countries means that at various times some bad shit goes down, if for no other reasons than the enraged homeboys get lucky or the occupiers get unlucky. But we never hear about instances like that unless perhaps a helicopter goes down because it's much harder to squash that sort of news. It's always a droning, consistent one or two deaths day after day.
On the other hand the resistance would want to maximise the invaders' casualties to boost morale, something like these reports which in my view are fanciful numbers along the lines of what our war criminals make up, only in the other direction. Let's be honest, the truth probably lies in the middle with a dozen or so dead every day and a bunch more wounded, but we'll never be told real numbers beyond that daily trickle.
And there was one event several years ago that proves our criminals are consummate liars.
On October 10, 2006, resistance in Iraq sent some rockets into the largest weapons depot in the country, forward base Falcon, and got lucky.
"At the time of reporting, mountains of American arms and ammunition were continuing to explode in the sky in a huge fire unprecedented in Baghdad’s history. In response, US aircraft hysterically rocketed and bombed various parts of the city, the correspondent reported, trying to knock out the launch sites of the rockets that blasted into the American arsenal. A source in the Iraqi puppet regime told Mafkarat al-Islam that the Resistance blasted the American arsenal, known as Camp Falcon, with Grad and Katyusha rockets"
"The source said that the US forces were unable to do anything to stop the massive inferno of flame and explosions that was lighting up the Baghdad sky like fireworks. Reuters reported the puppet regime’s “Iraqiyah” television network as showing pictures of a huge fire lighting up the night sky. Reuters reporters in central Baghdad heard more than 30 explosions, which began at about 11pm local time Tuesday night.
This is the Youtube I posted about this unprecedented event. I found a video taken by a television camera in Baghdad that was 11 miles away, looking south. Watch what happens about four minutes into it.
American propaganda told us there were no casualties that night.
But the disaster was so catastrophic that the truth was out immediately, and over 300 service personnel had died in that one event.
Here are their names
"When the flames had been brought under control on the morning of the 11th of October, primarily because the entire camp had been gutted, nine large American military transports with prominent Red Cross markings were observed by members of the foreign media taking off, laded with the dead and the wounded.
Over 300 American troops, including U.S. Army and Marines, CIA agents and U.S. translators were casualties and there also were 165 seriously injured requiring major medical attention and 39 suffering lesser injuries 122 members of the Iraqi armed forces were killed and 90 seriously injured members of same, were also evacuated to the U.S. military hospital at al-Habbaniyah located some 70km west of Baghdad.
Satellite pictures and aerial photographs from neutral sources showed that Camp Falcon suffered major structural damage and almost all the U.S. military’s supply of small arms ammunition, artillery and rocket rounds, tons of fuel, six Apache helicopters, an uncounted but large number of soft-skinned vehicles such as Humvees and supply trucks were damaged or totally destroyed. Foreign press observers noted “an endless parade” of military vehicle recovery units dragging burnt-out heavy tanks and armored personnel carriers to another base outside Baghdad.
Many of the walls and towers of the camp were damaged or leveled as were many of the barracks, maintenance depots, and there was considerable damage to the huge mess halls that could hold 3000 soldiers, the huge recreation center with its basketball courts and indoor swimming pools and all the administration buildings
Although official U.S. DoD statements indicated that there were no deaths; that only a hundred men were inside the base guarding billions of dollars of vital military equipment and that there were “only two minor injuries to personnel,” passes belief and certainly reality is more painful than propaganda."
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