From Rush's Friday Show. The real facts about Iraq that you will not hear on ANY Sunday show. This is just an excerpt.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_040706/content/truth_detector.guest.html
"Brookings has its share of moderates, centrists and leftists, and they have something called the Iraq Index, tracking variables of reconstruction and security in post-Saddam Iraq -- and listen, they got four items here. "US troops killed in hostile action in Iraq last six months from October 2005 to March 2006, in order: 81, 76, 50, 49, 43, 25." That's the last six months, in reverse order, US troops killed in hostile action. That's a big improvement. "Iraqi military and police killed in Iraq in the last six months, in order: 215, 176, 193, 189, 158 and 193. The three months before that were 304, 282, and 233." So September, August, July, you see an even huger trend.
"Car bombings in the last six months, from October to March, in order: 70, 70, 70, 68, 30, 30." Now, let me ask you a question here. Given that the US troops killed in hostile action last October was 81 and in March was 25, and given that car bombings the last six months, October to March, 70 last October, 30 in March, have you seen corresponding media coverage that would lead you to believe that fewer US troops are killed in hostile fire and that there are fewer car bombs? My guess is you don't see anything of the sort.
My guess is you don't see anything that makes you think it's getting worse. You probably think there are more car bombs. You probably think that there are more deaths taking place. There's one other category here. "Civilians killed in Iraq, last six months, October 2005 to March 2006 in order: 527, 826, 532, 732, 950, 446 in March," and in fact the two months before, so looking at August and September of last year -- 2,849 and 1,129. So last August, 2,489 civilians killed in Iraq; in March, 446. So in every one of these categories there is a demonstrable, dramatic trend toward the better -- and I just know that there's no corresponding reporting out there. "
They report whatever bad news from an obscure website, but they won't even read the real stories by our mil-bloggers. Shameful.
Truth always destroys the msm's claims.Great job MNJ.
That piece from Rush is spectacular. I've captured what you posted and am going to commit the numbers to memory. I'm also going to search for the original source material (hopefully at Brookings Institute) and save the link. If I find it, or if someone beats me to it, I want to see that it's posted here for reference.
Great find.