Comments

You have commented 339 times on Rantburg.

Your Name

Your e-mail (optional)

Website (optional)

	My Original Nic Pic-a-Nic Sorry. Comments have been closed on this article.
Foto

Submit your comments on this article

Iraq

Speaker Pelosi and the Missing Ramadan Spike

2007-10-01

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

#11 neocommies, TW

Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-01 23:54

#10 it's a conservative wi-fi thing, TW

Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-01 23:17

#9 neocoms?

Posted by: trailing wife 2007-10-01 23:16

#8 it really is not "under the radar".

I'll readily concede that. I only meant it in the sense that she can't be sued for the treasonous shit she does. She's every bit as vile as Murtha.

Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-01 23:01

#7 mcsegeek1, it really is not "under the radar". She is not alone. The same crap became a standard fare from the neocoms. In your face. Pelosi and many others can do it because there is no accountability for ones' deeds if the partei ID is the "proper" one and because people got desnsitized by the sheer volume ot this crap.
For the moment... i believe that the payback will be byatch, in due time.

Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-01 22:25

#6 I dunno. Don't get me wrong, Murtha's a pile of steaming shit, no doubt about it. But he was a Marine. Sure he's crapped all over them recently, but to my mind, putting him in the same boat as that bitch Pelosi isn't an accurate comparison. That woman is anti-American, from the soles of her designer patent leather shoes to the crown of her salon dyed hair.

The fact that Pelosi can commit her treason, as Zenster so aptly put it, "under the radar", only further demonstrates her danger to America.

Posted by: mcsegeek1 2007-10-01 21:26

#5 from office

Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-01 21:03

#4 Pelosi is as big a traitor as Murtha. They both need to be removed.

Posted by: DarthVader 2007-10-01 20:37

#3 Pelosi is just another Murtha but with the wits to fly under radar.
Our traitor elite.

Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-01 19:58

#2 Fling enough dung and some will stick. The left understands, the right doesn't.

Posted by: ed 2007-10-01 18:19

#1 Pelosi's just trying to repeat a lie many many times and see if anyone notices or whether it sticks. Every dhimmicrat does that, so she sees no issue with the appoach.

Posted by: twobyfour 2007-10-01 17:31

00:00