"METRICS" Rummy's Fav Word

[maine_raptor]

Just another word for "Body Count"?

Anybody else getting a sense that Rummy is doing his Bob MacNamara imitation?

[cheezus]

1. if you count the dead using the metric system, nobody will understand it

999 dead soldiers? no no no, only 1.23 killofrags. don't be silly

[Fovea]

2. The word is so

1998.

[Union Thug]

4. corporate buzzwords..

applied to the tragic death of thousands of people (US and Iraqi).

THIS is the apex of corporate control. Everything is reduced to a metric - a measure completely removed from humanity.

FU rummy! FU republicans and corporatists.

[Az_lefty]

5. like Condi using the term "work product" during the 9-11 hearings.

[Fovea]

6. removed from humanity

and also frequently removed from relevance.
Not all phenomina are meaningful to measure, but that rarely stopped the metricians.

[maine_raptor]

3. I heard this same SH*T in the late 60's-70's

Listen to what the Gen was saying, he could have benn talking about fortified villages, Iraqi Army kills=SVN Kills.........It's all the same as Vietnam, but with different words.

I'm tellin ya, Rummy is doing a MacNamara rift.