More Good News from Iraq
Posted by Mike on December 19, 2007 at 7:36 AM
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More bad news for defeatist Dems and Al Queda!
The latest quarterly report, mandated by Congress as a condition of war funding for Iraq, is out. It's bad news for those who still insist the surge isn't working, or that U.S. troops are mired in a civil war or that there is no political progress.
What a shame! We're actually winning.
What is winning? As defined by President Bush and stated at the beginning of the report:
Measuring Stability and Security in IraqWhat Americans care most about and are anxious to see is further proof of the decline in violence. Three charts illustrate that perfectly:
December 2007
Report to Congress
In accordance with the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act 2007
(Section 9010, Public Law 109-289)
Department of Defense (PDF)
The strategic goal of the United States in Iraq remains a unified, democratic and federal Iraq that can govern, defend and sustain itself and is an ally in the war on terror.
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The number of security incidents has fallen significantly and is now at levels last seen in the summer of 2005. Although ethno-sectarian violence continues to be a concern, overall civilian casualties, enemy attacks and total improvised explosive device attacks have decreased markedly over the reporting period.
See the Link for some powerful Visuals....
Iraq by the numbers: Graphing the decrease in violence
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By December 17, 2007 10:32 AM
Multinational Forces-Iraq has released the data of the effects of the "surge" on the security situation. The reduction in deaths, attack trends, sectarian violence, and improvised explosive device, suicide, and car bomb attacks is dramatic. The number of weapons caches found per year has more than doubled. The graphs below have been provided by Multinational Forces Iraq. Click each graph to view in detail.