“We don't do body counts.”

—  Tommy Franks

News conference at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan (March, 2002) in reference to Afghan deaths due to invasion; quoted in Edward Epstein, "Success in Afghan war hard to gauge," http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020323-attack01.htm The San Francisco Chronicle (2002-03-23).

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