President Corrects Cabinet Secretary Upward, From Nobody To Eighteen

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The post presents itself as a clarification of remarks by a cabinet secretary regarding whether anyone was killed. The desk confirms the post is genuine and was published in this form, including the exclamation point.

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There is a genre of correction in which the government explains that the reassuring number was the wrong country's number, and this is the purest example of it. Note the construction: the secretary is excused because he had a different nation on his mind, as though the two are interchangeable folders on a desk, and the actual body count arrives as a triumphant gotcha with an exclamation point welded to the end. A president who understood the office would deliver this in a briefing room, slowly, without punctuation. The grammar here treats human lives as a scoring correction in an argument nobody else was having.

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