NY Times does McNamara type analysis of surge stats
Alissa Rubin and Edward Wong go over stats on deaths in Iraq in the seven weeks before the surge and the seven weeks after it. They find the numbers are about the same for all category of deaths, but the place of death has moved around.
Probably the biggest area of change has been the decrease in American deaths in Anbar province where American deaths have dropped from 46 to 31 in the comparable period despite "a terrifying new weapon: truck bombs that spread chlorine gas, burning victims’ lungs and skin."
The statistic that is missing from this compilation is the one that has been largely ignored by the media and that is the number of war crimes committed by this wicked enemy. I suspect that the reason why the media never focuses on enemy war crimes is that they believe such a focus might garner more support for defeating this enemy. You can bet if Americans were doing it they would have a count.
To get to there "nothings changed" stats they waited until the enemy began killing non combatants in large numbers outside of Baghdad to puff up their stats. Every car bomb in a market is clearly a war crime perpetrated against non combatants, but no one in the media seems to care about Iraqi victims they way they did about those being killed in the former Yugoslavia or in Darfur.
Probably the biggest area of change has been the decrease in American deaths in Anbar province where American deaths have dropped from 46 to 31 in the comparable period despite "a terrifying new weapon: truck bombs that spread chlorine gas, burning victims’ lungs and skin."
The statistic that is missing from this compilation is the one that has been largely ignored by the media and that is the number of war crimes committed by this wicked enemy. I suspect that the reason why the media never focuses on enemy war crimes is that they believe such a focus might garner more support for defeating this enemy. You can bet if Americans were doing it they would have a count.
To get to there "nothings changed" stats they waited until the enemy began killing non combatants in large numbers outside of Baghdad to puff up their stats. Every car bomb in a market is clearly a war crime perpetrated against non combatants, but no one in the media seems to care about Iraqi victims they way they did about those being killed in the former Yugoslavia or in Darfur.
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