Killing GI's In Iraq To Elect Democrats

10/17/06 | self

[mrsmith]

I assumed that attacks were stepped up to affect our elections but I was surprised how closely the rate of fatalities correlate with the campaign season.

The rate of wounded correlates exactly.

I'm sure the media will make sure voters are aware of how the terrorists manipulate them...

[MikeA]

Further proof that Democratic divisiveness on the war in Iraq has been noticed by the terrorists and that they think if they spill enough American blood they can effect not only a retreat from Iraq, but change the US political landscape. And the American moron voters are close to showing them they're right.

Americans have GOT to wake up to what the Democrats have done to harm our country's stand in the war on terror and to hurt our people fighting in Iraq. The terrorists have noted from the US media and Democratic rhetoric that we can't hack it, that we can't take a little difficulty and adversity to oppose them and they're playing to that lack of spine by working to kill more of our forces to help Democrats. Do Americans REALLY not see that the terrorists see the Democrats are better for them than are Republicans and are trying to put them into power???

WAKE UP AMERICA!!! WE'RE ABOUT THE LOSE OUR COUNTRY TO YOUR IGNORANCE!!!!!

[rhombus]

Rama-dama-ding-dong?

[caisson71]

I don't think there's enough said about this. It is obvious - to those who care to listen - that there is a correlation between terrorist activities and our political activities. Terrorists que on Dimocrap talking points and kill more Americans and Dimocraps use increased loss of American lives to promote terrorist objectives - get the US out of Iraq - to advance their political agenda. General Giap of the NVA did the same thing while launching the TET Offensive. 20,000 more American lives were lost while the Dimocraps quit and started their political retreat.

[tobyhill]

The terrorist and enemies learned from Vietnam the way to win a war, influence American elections. The more they can peddle chaos through our MSM, whether true or not, the more the American people see their government as incompetent and thus it influences the elections. If the Rats win the terrorist will claim that even the American people are on their side against their own government and those same people know the terrorist are too strong.

[eyespysomething]

Do you have the rates for the rest of the months? Could you post those, or a link to them?

[mrsmith]

Only when Ramadan comes on an election year.

Considering all the variables, I didn't expect to find that our casualties ALWAYS increase in campaign season.

[Names Ash Housewares]

All so true, all so true.

And this must be pointed out whenver possible.

[shankbear]

My favorite terrorist holiday.

[1035rep]

Excellent post!

[mrsmith]

Links aren't clickable in posts for some reason,
here is what I used:

Fatalities: http://www.icasualties.org/oif/US_chart.aspx

Wounded: http://www.icasualties.org/oif/woundedchart.aspx

[BlueSky194]

And remember, not one single American soldier has been killed or injured in the Kurdish section.

[Praxeas]

Contrary to what people may think here, the terrorists don't have the ability to increase American casualties at will. If they did our casualties would be considerably higher all the time.

November 2004 was Operation Phantom Fury when we re-took Fallujah. Ninety Four of those 137 deaths were caused by that battle alone.

[mrsmith]

Of course they don't have the ability to control how many casualties result from their attacks.
They do have the ability to marshall their forces and time their attacks. It is silly to say otherwise.

How many attacks they will make and how much they will invest in those attacks is up to the terrorists- and that is reflected in our casualty figures.

Increased American casualties correlate 100% with election season.

100%

[eyespysomething]

Thanks.

[mrsmith]

Us Casualties (combined wounded and killed) in Iraq compared for election and off-election years:

Aug-03 216 Sep-03 278 Oct-03 457 Nov-03 418

Aug-04 961 Sep-04 787 Oct-04 711 Nov-04 1566

Aug-05 626 Sep-05 594 Oct-05 701 Nov-05 483

Aug-06 647 Sep-06 847

[mrsmith]

"The terrorist and enemies learned from Vietnam the way to win a war, influence American elections. "

It's always been a problem for democratic countries. There was much doubt among the Allies that the US would persevere when we entered WW2, ironically.

Besides it's natural bias to cover the news in a way that helps Democrats, the media has an additional problem with this issue.
It would make their viewers feel bad about themselves to tell them they were being manipulated this way.

[Praxeas]

It is silly to ignore the facts -- that American initiatives contributed to the casualties. No one suggests that the enemy here cannot marshall their forces, although their ability to do so is limited. To blindly assume increased casualties are caused by the enemy's ability to increase our casualties at will shows ignorance of the simplest statistical analysis.

[Praxeas]

It was pretty clever how the Iraqis drew us into attacking Fallujah in November 2004, knowing that it was an election season. Look how they increased our casualties by marshalling their forces!

[mrsmith]

Usually I ignore the obstinately stupid, but heck.

Your emotional problem with the statistics: "increase our casualties at will " is a very, very silly straw man. I make no claim of the terorists abilities- only their intent.
What casualties will result from attacks no one ever knows. However attacks are made for the purpose of inflicting casualties.

It is the number of attacks that they are able to increase and the resources devoted to them. They do so during the election season- as the casualty statistics show.

BTW Operation Phantom Fury started a week after the election was over.