Civilians = Bugs

The more I read and blog about US and international affairs, the more it seems like I'm chronicling someone's descent into madness.

So guess what the US military calls civilian casualties that result from their attacks? "Collateral Damages" was the old term.

Give up?

Answer: "Bugsplat"

"The Pentagon has a word for that, too," he went on. "They call it 'bugsplat.' In the opening days of the invasion of Iraq, they ran computer programs, and they called the program the Bugsplat program, estimating how many civilians they would kill with a given bombing raid. On the opening day, the printouts presented to General Tommy Franks indicated that 22 of the projected bombing attacks on Iraq would produce what they defined as heavy bugsplat — that is, more than 30 civilian deaths per raid. Franks said, 'Go ahead. We're doing all 22.'"

Note that this was the same Gen. Tommy Franks who declared that "we don't do bodycounts". 'Course not. You do bugsplats instead.

Guess those civilians killed by US drone attacks are just bugs too.

WTF happened to America, man?

 

 

Comments

[k_w]

Cyrus, the "Bugsplat" link is broken. Is it this one: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20030226&slug=collateral26 or this one: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2012-01-01/news/bs-ed-koehler-20120101_1_civilian-toll-civilian-deaths-drone-strikes ?