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2007-09-18 Iraq

Empty wards in Baghdad hospital offer hope - Bad News for Dems

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-09-18 04:26|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Every silver lining has a cloud©, however -
But despite the improvement in Baghdad, violence still rages in other regions of Iraq, and Sunni Islamist al Qaeda militants have promised a renewed campaign to mark the Muslim holy month of Ramadan which started last week.

But it's been pretty quiet so far, except in D.C.

Posted by Bobby 2007-09-18 10:02|| 2007-09-18 10:02|| Front Page Top

#2 ""The major incidents, like explosions and car bombs, sometimes reached six or seven a day. Now it's more like one or two a week," he told Reuters."

/snark
"And if this keeps up , we will have no choice but begin the painful process of downsizing our workforce."
/end snark

Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-09-18 13:55|| 2007-09-18 13:55|| Front Page Top

#3 The relative calm at the Yarmouk hospital lends weight to U.S. and Iraqi government assertions that a security campaign launched around Baghdad in February has achieved results.

how civil and understated..

~:)

Ill bet the desk editors [pointed heads] were grinding their *tooth* when this was allowed to slip through..

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-09-18 15:08|| 2007-09-18 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Hugh Hewitt has a discussion of Iraqi casualites today. It appears that September deaths (Iraq-wide) are projecting to be a quarter what they were at their peek.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-09-18 18:08|| 2007-09-18 18:08|| Front Page Top

#5 Perhaps so, but there have already been 1,750,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 deaths in Iraq.

Posted by The Democrats 2007-09-18 18:38|| 2007-09-18 18:38|| Front Page Top

#6 WAPO reports 72,000 to 79,000 civilian deaths since 2003. Dingy Hairy Ried and Rep Kotexinich think we've killed 1 Million.

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2007-09-18 20:02|| 2007-09-18 20:02|| Front Page Top

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