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I'D LIKE A BODY COUNT

It is wearisome and depressing to have the almost daily litany of American soldiers slain or otherwise killed in combat splashed across the airwaves and print. All are painful, but they are sacrifices in a just and noble cause.

So why can't we get a daily scumfucker body count? How many of the enemy have we killed in these two wars, anyway? 15,000? 45,000? I want to know. I'm putting Risk pieces in my little scales of justice here, and would like to use a scoop to shovel in the casualties we have inflicted in, to cop a term from the jihadists, righteous wrath.

At least during Vietnam they'd give an enemy body count. Of course I was young and naive, and didn't realize they were lying; U.S. losses - 53, Enemy losses - 8,675 should have triggered a little skepticism, even in a youngster.

But that's about the reality in the War on Terror. And we SHOULD KNOW THAT. I don't believe in hiding losses of Americans, or even refusing to show flag-draped coffins. People need to understand the butcher's bill of war, and acknowledge the blood spilled for us by, let's be honest, our betters. But give me the whole story. I figure one in every thousand Muslims is an Islamist, so I want to keep track, even if it goes to a million.

We're too nice to do that, though. That would be bloodthirsty gloating. Oh, and it'd let the world know we're kicking the piss out of these vermin. Can't have that. People might support the War. Surely can't have that.

And I wish we'd quit using their term for killing a poor child because her uncle or brother raped her. That's not an "honor killing". That's fucking bullshit. An honor killing is when an American soldier or Marine busts a cap in a fucking jihadi.

It doesn't have to be that accurate, by the way. I understand bunker-busters and tank-killers don't leave much behind. But I'll round up, if necessary. I have to count to a million, anyway, so a few here and there won't matter.