The Americans learned one lesson from Vietnam: don't count the civilian dead. As a result, no one knows how many Iraqis have been killed in the five years since the invasion. Estimates put the toll at between 100,000 and one million, and now a bitter war of numbers is raging.
Lieutenant General Tommy Franks, who led the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan during his time as head of US Central Command, once announced, "We don't do body counts."
A suicide car bombing in Afghanistan killed at least 89 people Tuesday, with more than 40...
Former Blackwater security guard Matthew Murphy and now-indicted ex-colleague Paul Slough were friends, having survived the...
