How did we get MOAB ISIS body count so damn fast????

[dixiegrrrrl]

Massive bomb, massive destruction of tunnels and country side, and yet a quickly produced body count, supposedly all ISIS, no civilians??

Ain't buying it.

[pkdu]

1. It takes only seconds to pull a number out of your ass. nt

[shraby]

2. Not only that, I would think there wouldn't be much left of the bodies after

that bomb went off.

[Docreed2003]

3. Convenience....to make the bombing more impressive

Or they're digging people out from the rubble but I'll go with the former...

[dalton99a]

4. Trump had forensic scientists standing by onsite

[democratisphere]

5. drumpf brought in a huge team of "moles" and they worked very quickly.

I didn't know "moles" knew how to count.

[maveric]

6. I remember the Vietnam Nam "body counts".

Most of which were fabrications.

[HopeAgain]

29. My first thought as well

[Wellstone ruled]

7. Well that is why the various Military Agencies have

PR departments. Hey,they got to try to earn a living. Remember most of these people that make this crap up will never ever see the real thing. Money talks and Bullshit walks. Like someone said about those Body Counts in Nam,bull shit.

[DemocraticSocialist8]

8. Yea I'm not buying the 0 casualty bs

[Calculating]

9. More dead ISIShigher approval ratings

It's simple really.

[superpatriotman]

10. And it only costs $170,000, too

That's the price tag being bandied about in right wing circles now.

What a bargain!

[Mr. Ected]

14. Since when did right wingers give a good God damn

About the cost-effectiveness of war?

[Eyeball_Kid]

28. The Guardian states that the single MOAB cost $16,000,000.

I think I'll trust the Guardian and LA Times more than Free Republic or Daily Caller.

[Kath2]

11. I don't believe anything that comes from this administration.

Body counts. Reminds me of the horrible Vietnam era.

[D_Master81]

12. wondered the same thing

when i heard the 36 count or whatever it was i thought, how? This thing has a blast radius of 1 mile, if they were in the vacinity it seems like there would hardly be anything left. If they were in the tunnels, how did we get in there so quickly?

[nocalflea]

18. in hostile territory,no less

[mitch96]

20. Correct, Anybody in there would be vaporized

Or buried. I'm actually SHOCKED they did not say there were more bodies, ah la Vietnam body counts. . Who would know?? I would think the liar in chief would say there were more than really there..
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[hunter]

31. Nah, human bodies are tough.

This bomb kills people with the pressure wave, turning their lungs to mush. They die by suffocation long before the burns kill them

Death-wise it's pretty similar to a chemical weapon.

[Iggo]

13. Anyone who lived at the time of the Vietnam war...

...knows that body counts are bullshit.

[malaise]

15. It's up to 96 overnight

They made up shit. They don't know who they killed

[n2doc]

24. By next week all of IS will have died in that explosion!

Including all of their second-in-commanders! Only the head guy and a new, very nervous second in command will be left!

Just like Vietnam, except no one is calling BS on their numbers in the press.

[bluedigger]

16. By definition, anyone killed was ISIS.

It's a real life (death) example of the "No true Scotsman" fallacy.

[Blanks]

17. That's the beauty of it...

Drop a big bomb out in the middle on nowhere, make up numbers, how can anyone refute them.

Hell, how can you refute that there were tunnels, why did they have tunnels in the middle of nowhere.

It seems to make the press giddy.

Like, cool Trump learned how to drop bombs, he's acting like a real president now.

Sad.

[mitch96]

23. How can anyone refute them.

"Drop a big bomb out in the middle on nowhere, make up numbers, how can anyone refute them.
Hell, how can you refute that there were tunnels, why did they have tunnels in the middle of nowhere".

NPR has a piece yesterday about that area from an Afghan woman who lives there. She mentioned that there were a small group of IS fighters in tunnels up in the hills. She said the locals were more afraid of the Taliban than IS.. She said they are easy to spot as they are not Afghan..
Interesting piece..
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[hack89]

19. It was part of a ground assault

The day before the bomb was dropped a US soldier was killed there.

[G_j]

21. completely manufactured

nobody should buy it

[William769]

22. trumps bean counters. nt

[marked50]

25. Loss of Cell phone signals

[Chemisse]

26. Interesting theory.

But do they really have service up in those mountains, or in tunnels?

But if they did, that would be a way to loosely gauge it, I would think.

[Baconator]

27. Watch the area from overhead...

... Make a count, drop the bomb and look for squirters afterwards during BDA.

This particular spot is not a hubbub of activity so a count is well within the realm of possibility.

[trof]

30. squirters. heh

[Baconator]

33. I forget what we are supposed to call them now.

.. But that is on the naughty list.

[HoneyBadger]

32. Body counts are like polls

Meaningless drivel