Lies, Damned Lies and Military Statistics
The drop in the number of civilian deaths touted by CheneyBush as proof of success in Iraq does not include car bombings. Instead they just count the number of bodies found in the street that end up in the morgue. While the found body count has declined, the blown apart body count continues to rise. BushCheney says that to insist on an Iraq with no bombings is a "huge victory" for the enemy. A peaceful Iraq is a victory for the enemy? How strange. I thought that was America's goal in Iraq.
General Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, is a little more sober in his assessment. He said this week that the US does not expect the surge to stop bombings.
"I don't think you're ever going to get rid of all the car bombs," General Patraeus said. He added that "Iraq is going to have to learn as did, say, Northern Ireland, to live with some degree of sensational attacks."
Realistically, the general is correct, certainly in the near future, if not longer. Iraq is awash in weapons and hostility, even more so than Northern Ireland, so I would be surprised if the bombings will stop anytime soon. The fact that Northern Ireland would be a good outcome tells me how badly BushCheney has bolloxed Iraq. Perhaps that is why they discount car bomb victims.
Labels: casualties, iraq
posted by Rez Dog at 8:25 AM
3 Comments:
if belfast is their definition of "victory" we are in for a long, hard century.
The violence in Northern Ireland has long antecedents but it sounds like the general is talking about the most recent flare up that began in 1969. Almost 40 years later, they parties almost seem to be willing to stop killing each other. If that's our goal, it will indeed be a long hard century.
How can they NOT count car bombings and the dismembered bodies they create?
Are they less dead then the bodies that they find in the street and actually count?
Hell why don't we apply that type of illogical "reasoning" to the US crime scene?
We just won't count any of the crimes that occur and therefore we are a crime-free nation.
Praise be to our glorious leader here in Soviet America.
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