Speaking at a defense industry conference today, Gen. Raymond Thomas announced that the United States has killed 60,000 ISIS fighters, insisting this proved US troops had been “pretty darn prolific” in their killing of ISIS people.
This figure is noteworthy for two reasons. Firstly, the Pentagon had claimed 50,000 ISIS fighters were killed just back in December, meaning that the general is effectively claiming the US has directly killed 10,000 more ISIS fighters in just two months, a staggering figure.
Perhaps more importantly, the Pentagon had estimated last summer, while bragging about having ruined ISIS’ recruitment abilities, that there were only about 15,000 ISIS fighters left. Despite having killed well more than 15,000 ISIS since then, it appears ISIS isn’t out of troops or even visibly any more short-handed in Iraq and Syria than they had been.
Gen. Thomas’ take was that the killings showed the US making “great progress,” though it also raises questions about why the Pentagon is killing way more ISIS fighters than it ever believed to have existed in the first place, and why ISIS always seems roughly the same size every time the US offers these counts.
This is almost surely a massive lie.
I thought we don’t do body counts? Anyway so what the objective is not to kill Isis but to win the war. Any plan for that?
Well, maybe they have a secret breeding program. With force growing.
United States has killed 60,000 ISIS fighters, insisting this proved
US troops had been “pretty darn prolific” in killing of ISIS people…
These murdering psychopaths have probably included the thousands of
innocent women and children ‘they’ slaughtered around the world. The
slogan the mainstream corporate media has concocted to ‘rationalize’ the
atrocities committed by these sick bastards is the usual garbage:
‘America’s commit to the defense of ‘freedom’ worldwide’
I’m reminded of the routine from the old “Get Smart” comedy show.
— We’ve killed 60,000 ISIS fighters
—–Max, that seems unlikely
— Would you believe 30,000 ISIS fighters?
—- No Max
— How about 2 men in a rowboat?
In a democracy, it should be serious crime for officials to lie to the citizens. How can citizens make informed decisions when they are fed constant lies by officials? Its a coup against the people and democracy to tell such lies, and should be treated as seriously.
And as I recall, the official number of civilians killed is miraculously less than 200. To prove a civilian is killed, they use the same standard that one uses for a pilot to show an aerial combat win that works towards his becoming an ace. They seem to have a different heuristic to determine ISIS combat deaths.
This is truly fantastic. The U.S. air force has killed more ISIS fighters than all of the ground combatants combined. Back in the Vietnam days, the press was skeptical of Pentagon BS now they eat it up.
I might believe 30000 if they’re including hostages & human shields in the body count…