From Think Progress
By Judd

In late October, Bush told a group of conservative journalists that the administration had made a decision not to report the number of Iraqis killed by the U.S. military. The publication of those figures was widely seen as a counter-productive strategy during the Vietnam War. Byron York reported for the National Review:

We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team, Bush said, in a clear reference to the tabulations of enemy killed that became a hallmark of the Vietnam War. And that, in turn, gives you the impression that [U.S. troops] are just there — kind of moving around, directing traffic, and somebody takes a shot at them and they’re down.

Today, Tony Snow announced that the administration had reversed course and would be publicizing body counts to disabuse people of the notion that our people aren’t doing anything in Iraq.

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