“The inescapable fact is that we are winning in Iraq.”
Wow, just wow. How disconnected from reality are you guys?
“This year’s U.S. troop buildup has succeeded in bringing violence in Baghdad down from peak levels, but the death toll from sectarian attacks around the country is running nearly double the pace from a year ago.
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_ Iraq is suffering about double the number of war-related deaths throughout the country compared with last year – an average daily toll of 33 in 2006, and 62 so far this year.
_ Nearly 1,000 more people have been killed in violence across Iraq in the first eight months of this year than in all of 2006. So far this year, about 14,800 people have died in war-related attacks and sectarian murders. AP reporting accounted for 13,811 deaths in 2006. The United Nations and other sources placed the 2006 toll far higher.
_ Baghdad has gone from representing 76 percent of all civilian and police war-related deaths in Iraq in January to 52 percent in July, bringing it back to the same spot it was roughly a year ago.
_According to the Iraqi Red Crescent Organization, the number of displaced Iraqis has more than doubled since the start of the year, from 447,337 on Jan. 1 to 1.14 million on July 31.”
But the people who said we were winning in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006 say we’re winning in 2007. Gosh, it must be true.
I know, I know, they’re in the “last throes.” Gotcha.
