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2006-08-24 Iraq

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Posted by Bobby 2006-08-24 06:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 We're winning !
Of course we wouldn't want the democraps to lose their main campaign issue would we ?

Posted by wxjames 2006-08-24 09:37|| 2006-08-24 09:37|| Front Page Top

#2 IIUC the 3500 a day includes ALL deaths from violence, including crime (which is not all that easy to tell from terr violence) bodies that show up at morgues, etc. Sounds like your lower numbers represent incidents reported in the news - bombings, shootings etc. Alot of sectarian killings, IIUC, happen quietly, and dont get counted till the bodies show up at the morgue. OTOH the 3500 is probably in over statement, since the bodies showing up at the morgue include victims of murder having nothing to do with politics, and which were never zero in Iraq.

It IS my impression that August will be better than July. Lets hope September represents further improvement.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-08-24 10:04|| 2006-08-24 10:04|| Front Page Top

#3 Good post, Bobby, and thanks again to your son, a hero to us all.

The Lions of Islam need to stick to machine gunning children on their way to school. They don't do so well against strong men (and wimmin) armed.

Posted by Matt 2006-08-24 11:22|| 2006-08-24 11:22|| Front Page Top

#4 We should also post non-accidental deaths civilian or military in the CONUS side by side with those in Iraq, on a day-by-day or week-by-week basis, just for comparison.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-08-24 12:14|| 2006-08-24 12:14|| Front Page Top

#5 In automobile fatalities alone, the number is over 40,000 - or well over 100 per day.

But that's down from about 55,000 per year during the time of the Vietnam war....

Posted by Bobby 2006-08-24 12:56|| 2006-08-24 12:56|| Front Page Top

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