Progress?


I saw on CNN this smarmy Bush administration official come and and say that US troop deaths had fallen because of the surge, which is why we should support it. Just read the following chart bottom to top and compare 2006 month by month to 2007. US troop deaths haven't fallen. They are way up. Besides, they would be zero if the US were not occupying Iraq militarily, so if we should support a policy that leads to fewer troop deaths, that is the better policy.

Here are the US troop death via Icasualties.org.

8-2007 77 8-2006 65
7-2007 79 7-2006 43
6-2007 101 6-2006 61
5-2007 126 5-2006 69
4-2007 104 4-2006 76
3-2007 81 3-2006 31
2-2007 81 2-2006 55
1-2007 83 1-2006 62


I mean, how brain dead do the Bushies think we are, peddling this horse manure that US troop deaths have fallen? (There are always seasonal variations because in the summer it is 120 F. in the shade and guerrillas are too heat-exhausted to fight; but the summer 2007 numbers are much greater than those for summer 2006; that isn't progress.) And why does our corporate media keep repeating this Goebbels-like propaganda? Do we really live in an Orwellian state?

I'm at a conference. I would make a chart to illustrate the above if I had the time. Somebody else please do it. Maybe we bloggers can unite to keep the debate from being conducted on false premises for once.

Repeat: US troop deaths in Iraq have not fallen and that is not a reason to support the troop escalation. And, violence in Iraq has not fallen because of the surge. Violence is way up this year.

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Compassionate Conservatism

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What would Jesus Do

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Shouldn't that equipment been there already?

Bye-Bye Baghdad

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Stock Market is up!

• Better job numbers?
  
• Consumer Confidence?
  
• Personal Income is up?
  
• Costs & Inflation down?
  
• Balanced budgets?
  
• reversal of US Trade deficit?
  
• Victory in Iraq?
  
  
• Fed cuts discount rate?
  

Throwing printed money

after bad

Surge Progress

247 Iraqis Killed, 6 GIs; 260 Iraqis Wounded ...

Who's the Flip Flopper now:

MISSING IN IRAQ

AK-47 rifles: 110,000
Pistols: 80,000
Body armour pieces: 135,000
Helmets: 115,000

enough for an army ...

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and hoses (and lots of batteries) to Iraq!

Encouraging?

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN)

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