Posted on 03/20/2006 8:19:42 AM PST by dson7_ck1249
The latest criticism of the war in Iraq has become so politically manipulative, so disingenuous, so over-the-top that it is undermining a critical cause that we cannot, for a variety of global security reasons, afford to lose...
Lets look at last Thursday, March 16, the day the Iraqi National Assembly opened in Baghdad and a high-profile "air assault" northeast of Samarra, as an example:
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Also at News Max :
Monday, March 20, 2006 10:03 a.m. EST
U.S. Iraq Casualties Plummet in March
The press is marking the third anniversary of the liberation of Iraq with an avalanche of reports that a sectarian "civil war" has broken out, which, reporters say, means U.S. efforts to bring stability to Iraq are on the verge of failure.
But only a few short weeks ago reporters were measuring success [or, in their case, failure] in Iraq by a completely different standard: the number of U.S. troops killed in combat operations.
So why the shift in focus? It turns out that while the so-called Iraqi civil war has been raging, the number of U.S. casualties has plummeted to less than half of what they were over the previous five months.
In fact, if the current trend continues, March will be the second least deadly month for American GIs since the war began.
We have so vastly depleted their ability to mass any numbers of "insurgents" at all that these operations get a handful anymore. That's good news, and it shows (as I've predicted for some time) there are finite numbers of these loonies, and they are running out of bodies.
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