>>>I think he was quoting FBI wiretaps. Still whats a few million South East Asian dead when we can laugh about LBJ and tricky Dicky.
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>>Just so it's clear, I didn't say anything about the 3 million Vietnamese casualties and would never make light of that.
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>And I never really approved of the word "casualty". Sounds somehow... casual. These people are dead. I'd call them so, or victims, or anything along those lines. Casualty seems politically overrectified.

Bit like 'collateral damage' ?