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Speaker Pelosi and the Missing Ramadan Spike
 Sounds like a Sherlock Holmes Mystery.U.S. forces killed in combat (not accidents or health reasons) stand at forty-two for the month of September, as of this writing on September, 30th. By comparison, the DoD suffers an average of 250 accidental deaths a year in peace time, or just under twenty-one a month. Monthly fatalities caused by hostile action may soon barely exceed peace-time on duty deaths. Yet Speaker Pelosi has been asserting just the opposite. Only a few weeks ago the Speaker referred to Iraq in terms of a "staggeringly high level of violence." And just days before General Petraeus testified, the Speaker released a statement in which, under the headline "U.S. TROOP CASUALTIES RISING," referenced "June, July and August 2007." In fact, this was a period of time in which losses due to hostile action dropped by over 50% from May. US forces' overall fatalities in Iraq dropped by 33% in that same time period. But inaccuracies like that are not isolated. On June 13th, 2007 the Speaker sent the President a letter that read: "In fact, the last two months of the war were the deadliest to date for U.S. troops." According to icasualties.org, which is often referenced in the Speaker's own press releases, in no month in this year did US forces in Iraq experience more fatalities than the two highest months of 2004. So who is the one "cooking the books"? Posted by: Bobby 2007-10-01 |
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