[Newsbot]

Title: Taliban whopper: claim 5,220 foreign troops killed
Category: World
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-01-05 15:13:03

[roger-roger]

Sounds like they have been playing too much call of duty.

[mtbr]

Damn Conservative government

they've been lying to us

[BartSimpson]

Smoking too much of the local flora, I'd say. I guess if you smoke enough opium one American or Canadian seems like 20.

[StuntmanMike]

It sounds laughable but it's not. That claim isn't aimed at people here in the west. It's aimed at Urdu and Pashtun Afghans and Pakistani tribesmen who don't have the same access to information that we do, and don't have the capacity to view such claims critically.

If it was commonly understood that the Taliban losses are so one-sided in their battles with coalition forces, it would make the Taliban look weak. And nobody wants to appear weak in that part of the world. Image is half the war.

[ridenrain]

They have it from a very high authority source...

[SigPig]

Whoever they have counting for them should be fired immediately.