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He was against body counts before he was for them

Different week, same president.

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George W. Bush, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2006: “We have made a conscious effort not to be a body-count team.”

George W. Bush, Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006: “There’s no question that October was a tough month. We lost 103 soldiers … Our troops and Iraqi troops killed or captured over 1,500 people during this period of time.”

By Tim Grieve

Tim Grieve is a senior writer and the author of Salon's War Room blog.

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