Sectarian death toll double since surge began

You can bet that the September White House report on Iraq will not contain this:

•Iraq is suffering about double the number of war-related deathsnationwide compared with last year — an average daily toll of 33 in2006, and 62 so far this year.

•Nearly 1,000 more people havebeen killed in violence across Iraq in the first eight months of thisyear than in all of 2006. So far this year, about 14,800 people havedied in war-related attacks and sectarian murders. The AP accounted for13,811 deaths in 2006.

•Baghdad has gone from representing 76percent of all civilian and police war-related deaths in Iraq inJanuary to 52 percent in July, bringing it back to the same spot it wasroughly a year ago.

InJuly, the AP figures show, 35 percent of all war-related killingsoccurred in northern provinces. The figure one year ago was 22 percent.

Or you can just continue believing the little fairytale.

Comments

[granny]

Where are the "stats" on New Orleans?
Let's take a look at that "progress" over the last two years.

Let's look at the auto industry, and the efforts to cut gas consumption.

Let's put up some "stats" on global warming.

Are we mentioning that not one candidate, not ONE, is making those problems a significant, if any, part of their rhetoric on "changing" the way we do things?

George mentions it, bless his heart. And almost never gets a nibble of discussion.

When the Russians launched the first capsule into orbit, John Kennedy gave the word: every resource was to be turned to that goal, until the goal was achieved.

Where's that strength and determination among our aspiring leaders now?

[kenoshaMarge]

Talking heads will repeat again and again that the death toll is down and ill-informed public will believe that it is so. Repeating dishonesty is all our corporate controlled media is used for these days. The Public Good has been replaced by the Private Pocketbook. As usual, money trumps all.