{"id":1527,"date":"2008-04-19T19:42:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T23:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2008-04-20T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T13:07:58","slug":"al-jazeera-us-casualties-in-iraq-reach-44000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1527","title":{"rendered":"Al Jazeera; US casualties in Iraq reach 44,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is just too good to not repeat. Hat tip to Grim at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackfive.net\/main\/2008\/04\/another-grim-mi.html\" target=\"_blank\">Blackfive<\/a> who calls this, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnsnews.com\/news\/viewstory.asp?Page=\/Nation\/archive\/200804\/NAT20080418c.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNS News<\/a>, &#8220;Another Grim Milestone&#8221;;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At this point, according to the BBC translation, the moderator interrupted Al-Shammari. &#8220;Excuse me, the figure you have is 44,000?&#8221; the moderator asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Americans do not count those who have Green Cards,&#8221; explained Al-Shammari.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Americans do not count those who die in explosions on a daily basis. The Americans do not count deaths among the logistic support teams and other Green Card holders, as I said,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They only count holders of U.S. nationality. Our people in the Islamic Army had found earlier some of the mass graves for U.S. soldiers in Al-Iskandariyah area, Al-Habbaniyah, and elsewhere; and there are recorded videos of these,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you have an accurate calculation and a clear follow-up on this issue that allows you to announce the figure 44,000?&#8221; asked the moderator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, we in the military office have precise statistics that are highly professional in calculating the daily losses and casualties of the enemy,&#8221; said Al-Shammari.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So apparently, we&#8217;re handing out green cards, sending the new recipients straight to the front lines where they&#8217;re then used as sand bags. It&#8217;s no wonder that Al Jazeera enjoyed better access than I did at Winter Soldier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is just too good to not repeat. Hat tip to Grim at Blackfive who calls &hellip; <a title=\"Al Jazeera; US casualties in Iraq reach 44,000\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1527\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Al Jazeera; US casualties in Iraq reach 44,000<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}