Posted on 12/31/2007 2:05:26 PM PST by Fido969
It's just after midnight in Bagdad, and while the final number may change, the preliminary number of coalition fatalities in Iraq for December 2007 is 22, down from 40 in November - which was itself a month hailed as unusually quiet in Iraq.
While each, of course, is tragic, coalition fatalities of 22 would be the lowest monthly total since the war began.
(Excerpt) Read more at asmainegoes.com ...
December coalition deaths - lowest month since war began....
don’t tell the lib/dems or the msm....they will be in a blue funk to start 2008....knowing the Surge is working and that the War is being won!!!!
Katie Colic will trumpet this on the See BS Nooz, no doubt...
MSM:
Women and children hit hardest.
Democratic leaders decry Bush’s lack of leadership in this matter.
Senator Harry Reid deeply troubled and the news...
We’re Doomed!!!!
Had the clintonista CIA and State Dept a$$ clowns who were hell bent on screwing up this war from the start for political reasons not gotten involved AKA: Pau Bremer and the ilk, we'd have had 3500 less casualties. That I am convinced of....!
Darn quagmire.
Edging out February 2004 which had 23 fatalities in 29 days. Furthermore, while that month was a bit of a fluke, this month is a continuation of a six month trend...The surge...is working...
I may be just a crazy lurker , But I keep wondering
if some type of quid pro quo deal has been made between
the Bush administration and Iran. Iran puts and end to its
proxy war in Iraq and we stop pushing them to end their
nuclear program.Both things have happened in the 2nd half
of 2007.
In a very short wrap-up (about 3 minutes) of 2008 politics on FoxNews today, their only comment on Iraq was that it had the most fatalities of any year. Everything they said had Pres. Bush a loser. I guess I won't watch any of the wrap-up shows this year.
Which means that the entire might of Al Qaeda and Iran only managed to kill 14 good Americans and 1 Brit this month...less than one every other day.
For a little historical perspective, we lost more **PER MINUTE** during many points of our June 6, 1944 D-Day landing.
And for our numbers of wounded...we’ve gone from having over 700 Americans wounded per month in Iraq back in May/June down to fewer than 200 wounded in November (and substantially fewer still this month).
Thus, the war is over.
This is a mop-up operation now, with troop drawdowns *already* occurring (down to 75% of our peak by July, 2008...and then down below 50% by the end of 2008).
We won.
Hussein’s dead. Abu Abbas is dead. Abu Nidal is dead. Abu Musab al Zarqawi is dead...all killed in an Iraq that is now pacified as well as allied with the U.S.
Moreover, Al Qaeda has been unable to hit the U.S. with another 9/11 attack, and has been unable to take their jihad into Israel.
Sucks to be them.
I still want word we have killed Osama.. I want it in the worse way.
This good news is worthy to be placed in the Breaking News!
Ping of interest.
Well I saw a story this morning (I think it was NBC)...
“This year in Iraq— deadliest since war began.”
They will massage and spin it any way they can to fit their agenda.
where does the number ‘22’ come from?
this site
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_casualties_current.htm
is reporting 19
Definitely a solid trend, no fluke.
Hence the deafening sounds of silence via the MSM coming out of Iraq recently.
First, Thank God for protecting our troops and may this be a trend that continues.
Second, I guess this means the word Iraq is no longer allowed in the AP style book.
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