81, 76, 50, 49, 43, 25
What are these numbers? This week’s Powerball winners? A safe deposit combo? No, they’re the number of troops that have died in hostile actions in Iraq for each of the past six months. That last number represents the lowest level of troop deaths in a year, and second-lowest in two years.
So it must be that the insurgency is turning their assault on Iraqi military and police, who are increasingly taking up the slack, right?
215, 176, 193, 189, 158, 193 (and the three months before that were 304, 282, 233)
Okay, okay, so insurgents aren’t engaging us; they’re turning increasingly to car bombs then, right?
70, 70, 70, 68, 30, 30
Civilians then. They’re just garroting poor civilians.
527, 826, 532, 732, 950, 446 (upper bound, two months before that were 2489 and 1129)
Bet you never saw any of this on CNN or MSNBC. BTW, the numbers were compiled by the Brookings Institute, hardly a right-wing, Bible-thumping bunch of Bush worshipers.
Ken
What are these numbers? This week’s Powerball winners? A safe deposit combo? No, they’re the number of troops that have died in hostile actions in Iraq for each of the past six months. That last number represents the lowest level of troop deaths in a year, and second-lowest in two years.
So it must be that the insurgency is turning their assault on Iraqi military and police, who are increasingly taking up the slack, right?
215, 176, 193, 189, 158, 193 (and the three months before that were 304, 282, 233)
Okay, okay, so insurgents aren’t engaging us; they’re turning increasingly to car bombs then, right?
70, 70, 70, 68, 30, 30
Civilians then. They’re just garroting poor civilians.
527, 826, 532, 732, 950, 446 (upper bound, two months before that were 2489 and 1129)
Bet you never saw any of this on CNN or MSNBC. BTW, the numbers were compiled by the Brookings Institute, hardly a right-wing, Bible-thumping bunch of Bush worshipers.
Ken
