"Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq: Military Statistics Called Into Question"

[Cypress]

"Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq: Military Statistics Called Into Question"

After all the bullshit that's been thrown at us for 5 years from Bu$hCo. and their supporters, they wouldn't be trying to bullshit us again...would they?



Experts Doubt Drop In Violence in Iraq

Military Statistics Called Into Question

The U.S. military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months has come under scrutiny from many experts within and outside the government, who contend that some of the underlying statistics are questionable and selectively ignore negative trends.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR2007090502466.html?hpid=topnews

 

[Bonestorm]

Again, my favorite tidbit:

Intelligence analysts computing aggregate levels of violence against civilians for the NIE puzzled over how the military designated attacks as combat, sectarian or criminal, according to one senior intelligence official in Washington. "If a bullet went through the back of the head, it's sectarian," the official said. "If it went through the front, it's criminal."

Got that? Sectarian violence only includes those people shot in the back of the head.

Are really, the whole point the The Blessed Surge and Saint Petraeus was to give some breathing room for political reconciliation. How's that going? Why are we even getting involved in discussing the minutiae of casualty statistics.

Ugh.

 

[Cancel5]

Again, my favorite tidbit:




Got that? Sectarian violence only includes those people shot in the back of the head.

Are really, the whole point the The Blessed Surge and Saint Petraeus was to give some breathing room for political reconciliation. How's that going? Why are we even getting involved in discussing the minutiae of casualty statistics.

Ugh.

The Blessed Surge and Saint Petraeus ahahahaha,