Corners Turned

Robert Farley runs some numbers: "Between March 2003 and August 2006, there was never a period in Iraq in which Coalition casualties exceeded 2.5/day for each of three consecutive months."

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A decrease in violence means that the surge is working. An increase in violence means that the surge is working. Understand?

Posted by Dr. Wu | May 13, 2007 10:46 AM

Why are liberals so enamored of numbers?

In his gut every american feels that the noble Iraqi experiment has been one of the greatest foreign policy successes of any American Presidet, and that the surge will only consolidate the gains in Mohammedan goodwill towards America.

But the liberals continue to try to find remote signs of disaster in the n'th decimal place of some numeric statistic which has no relevance to the real measures of our triumph in Iraq, to wit, the eternal gratefulness of the Iraqis to our country for bringing them much needed freedom and democracy.

Posted by gregor | May 13, 2007 11:04 AM

Gregor, what planet are you living on dude?? Americans should learn to mind their own business, you have caused disaster after disaster for the rest of the world, most of us just want you to go away, and that is being charitable. Gregor.. a pox on your house!!

Balzar

Posted by Balzar | May 13, 2007 12:08 PM

A graph showing monthly deaths of Coalition and NATO troops in Iraq and Afghanistan:

http://www.defense-and-society.org/fcs/pdf/iraq_fatalities.pdf

Data source: http://icasualties.org/oif/

All the trend lines, the moving averages, are rising each month to new highs. This is the cost of the war that we pay. The poorly counted but enormous toll of Iraq dead is another cost.

On the other side are the ledger are the gains to American security and the Iraq people. Nothing, so far. Nothing even visible out to the horizon, except in the imagination of America's war party -- which seems to include most of our politicos, and an ever-shrinking fraction of the American people.

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