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2006-04-01 Iraq
US casualties in Iraq falling steadily since the summer
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Posted by Dan Darling 2006-04-01 00:28|| || Front Page|| [11135 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Electronics shops make sense if they are out of electronics kits for IEDs.
Posted by 3dc 2006-04-01 00:57||   2006-04-01 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Re-read the first few paragraphs of this - a classic of the distorted self-parody of reporting that is now common. Every few weeks there's a new "alarming" turn in the war, every time portending - you guessed it - a step closer to "civil war". The distortion here is really quite dramatic. Criminality centered on money has been at the heart of most of the so-called "insurgency" among most Sunnis, not to mention being at the root of almost all kidnapping and much of the other misbehavior.

But it would be unseemly to portray the vicious quasi-fascist mercenary thugs behind the "insurgency" as, well, vicious quasi-fascist mercenary thugs. I say "quasi-fascist" because like other Arabs these particular losers can't really even get the twisted, evil, malevolent European-invented models of statecraft that they've tried to imitate quite right.

Scan "news" reports out of Iraq and behold words you'll hardly find in any other hard news stories on any other topic: "raging, exploding, wave of violence (means 2 small attacks in city the size of LA), chaos, teetering on brink of civil war, blah blah blah". Someone with the patience and time really oughta carefully document this - it would be striking.
Posted by Verlaine in Iraq 2006-04-01 03:51||   2006-04-01 03:51|| Front Page Top

#3 Here's the newsy part:
March should show one of the lowest monthly US death tolls of the war, possibly the lowest in two years.
Posted by 6 2006-04-01 06:27||   2006-04-01 06:27|| Front Page Top

#4 But the cumulative death toll keeps rising.
Posted by Jackal">Jackal  2006-04-01 09:02|| http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[http://home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]  2006-04-01 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Most news reports emphasize body count rather than the fact that it's Iraqi-on-Iraqi.

I suspect that's because if Americans were more aware that these casualties are mostly Iraqi internicene violence, we'd take the view widely expressed during the Iran/Iraq war: "I hope they both lose."

Now that I think of it, considering the factions involved this may be in fact another Iran/Iraq War.
Posted by regular joe 2006-04-01 09:19||   2006-04-01 09:19|| Front Page Top

#6  But the cumulative death toll keeps rising.

So? It continues to raise on the highways, in the cities, and everywhere people live. Senseless, far less than being done in by some rectal orifice of an excuse driving DUI for the umpteenth time. Given the choice between during 24 in Iraq or traveling some of our roads on Friday or Saturday night, I'd say you have a better chance of survival in the former.
Posted by Whomotle Ebbise1474 2006-04-01 09:27||   2006-04-01 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 i say just arm the kueds better and klet the shias and sunnis kill each other off
Posted by Greamp Elmavinter1163 2006-04-01 09:46||   2006-04-01 09:46|| Front Page Top

#8  But the cumulative death toll keeps rising.
:>
Posted by 6 2006-04-01 10:04||   2006-04-01 10:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Cumulative death toll rising....good one Jackal! Its a bear-doing-what-in-the-woods moment, heh.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2006-04-01 10:42||   2006-04-01 10:42|| Front Page Top

#10 And the cumulative total would still increase if one American was killed every two months. In fact, someone who didn't want you to notice that the RATE has gone down to practically nothing would call attention to that fact.

Considering that we're counting deaths, the cumulative total is hardly expected to decrease. in fact, I'd sorta think that if I went out there and resurrected 100 people, you'd complain that the cumulative total has gone down "a piddling fraction of the total."
Posted by Ptah">Ptah  2006-04-01 21:48|| http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]">[http://www.crusaderwarcollege.org]  2006-04-01 21:48|| Front Page Top

#11 I think somebody missed the humor in Jackal's MSM impersonation.
Posted by Darrell 2006-04-01 21:52||   2006-04-01 21:52|| Front Page Top

#12 I wouldn't be surprised to read "the cumulative death toll has gone down" if it could be spun to hurt W. The utter impossibility would evade our MSM geniuses just like the fact that life has a 100% fatality rate (oooohhh!! Global warming?)
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-04-01 22:19||   2006-04-01 22:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Nobody is f'ing with the Kurds.

You know why?

They will take the fight to the bastards who are bankrolling all this incitement to civil war: Iran (and Syria to a lesser extent).

They have organization and clandestine operations cells there from decades of dealing with opression.


Posted by Oldspook 2006-04-01 22:37||   2006-04-01 22:37|| Front Page Top

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