Posted on 04/02/2006 2:10:55 PM PDT by bessay
You heard it here first; the war in Iraq is over. Icasualties.org, a website that tracks casualties in Iraq, shows that the daily American military death toll has been steadily dropping for the past six months. March, 2006 had the second lowest KIA rate since the war began. Of course the numbers are misleading. It will come as a surprise to some that the widely proclaimed milestone of two thousand military deaths in the Iraq war included soldiers and marines killed in vehicle accidents, those that died of natural causes, and those that killed themselves. At the time of reporting there has still not been two thousand American troops killed in action in Iraq. Of course, one fallen hero is one too many.
The fact that the mainstream media has spun the numbers in an attempt to paint the Iraq war as a "quagmire" is prima fascia evidence of their contempt for the Bush administration. The Sunday talk shows today made little or no mention of the overwhelming progress in Iraq. Iraq has become a boring success. There is little political advantage in the stories coming from the war theatre for Democrats, so it won't be mentioned much in the future.
Watch for a change of subject. Now that Iraq has joined Afghanistan as perhaps the greatest triumph of foreign policy in recent American history, the mainstream media will focus on something else. It may be Iran's belligerency. It may be the broken roadmap for peace in Palestine. It may even be the "racist" elections in Louisiana. One thing is certain, whatever the next Big Topic is that's selected by Big Media, it will be negative and it will be George W. Bush's fault.
This is a good thing.
Without Big Media focus, there will be less incentive for grand acts of destruction in Iraq. Without publicity, the thugs will have no reason to kill themselves and others. The war is over; the troops have won. The silence of the press will be the final proof.
Good catch.
Amen!
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It's true (it's also pretty much an article written from FR threads over the past two months).
We were losing 3.1 good men in Iraq each day back in October. That's dropped each month to a rate of less than 1 per day now.
The U.S. loses more than 1 soldier per day in peacetime training exercises.
Iraq has become safer than our own training exercises.
Its Iran time. Adios Iran you infected scumsuckers.
So then what is the true KIA count with out the accidents included?
When the Iraqi self-defense army has enough trained personnel to keep the peace, then the war will be over.
The dudes right... just like the blistering economy... you'll never hear about it from the MSM.
in a less rabid world, this would be front page, bold type.
The actual war in Iraq has been over for a long, long time everywhere but in the MSM. What's going on now is similar to the stabilization of Germany and Japan at the end of World War II. The media had a cow over that one, too.
Allowing them to lie every day does not serve either our national interest or the Iraqi's at all.
Thank you. I have had this "discussion" with some people lately who preach about the "disaster" in Iraq. Their response is that we are becoming accustomed to the daily bad news. This helps refute that.
That would have to also include those communist networks ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.
They're using a different tactic now.
They were killing our troops with the thought that we'd pullout.
Now they're killing Iraqis hoping if they kill enough Iraqis, they will throw us occupiers out of their country.
GOOD that we are losing fewer and fewer of our brave troops.
The U.S. loses more than 1 soldier per day in peacetime training exercises.
Iraq has become safer than our own training exercises.
I was wondering how that was possible, and I think I figured it out: only a fraction of the United States military is in Iraq. Therefore, all other things being equal, there are going to be fewer military deaths there than the entire rest of the world put together.
To be sure, Iraq is still a relatively dangerous place. But everything in the article is true. Iraq is getting safer and safer all the time, and there's nothing the MSM can do about it. Except ignore it, of course. No congratulations to our troops for what they've accomplished over there, no congratulations to the Bush administration for the tough decision to invade, no progress reports on improvements.
If the MSM switches gears and decides to talk about Iraq, it will be one of the following things: a breathless report on whatever military casualties do occur, few and far between as they have become, with continued insistence that Iraq is a quagmire, or moonbattish histrionics about "Bush lied, kids died."
In other words, they'll wait for something bad to happen, or take a blatant ideological line and "investigate" the "allegations" that "many people" have made that the nation was led into Iraq under "false pretenses." And when they aren't doing that, they'll be doing some other anti-Bush-agenda-driven story. For example, good economic news will be reported as "the gap between rich and poor widening" or "the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer." Which of course means that everyone is getting richer, but some people are getting richer faster than others.
Leftists are nothing if not extremely predictable.
Is that the first board under the gutter?
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