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charlie,
for the surge to have worked the violence will need to remain reduced after the surge.
if troop levels continue at the surge level - then it's not a surge it's an escalation
considering the iraqi government wants us out of there. it's hard to conceive of how the surge has worked.
but i'm listening.
Oh yeah...that surge has worked alright...
15 July 2008
At least 35 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a double suicide bombing north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, army sources say.
There were 308 people murdered in New York City between January and June of this year. That averages out to about 52 murders per month....We don't have it much better than Iraq...we just have a different method...
Violence in Iraq down significantly, US report says | World news | guardian.co.ukOh yeah...that surge has worked alright...
15 July 2008
At least 35 people have been killed and more than 50 injured in a double suicide bombing north of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, army sources say.
charlie,
for the surge to have worked the violence will need to remain reduced after the surge.
if troop levels continue at the surge level - then it's not a surge it's an escalation
considering the iraqi government wants us out of there. it's hard to conceive of how the surge has worked.
but i'm listening.
In Iraq, the U.S. is withdrawing the last of its five "surge" brigades: those sent to Iraq in 2007 to bolster U.S. forces there.
Pentagon looks at cuts in Iraq, additions in Afghanistan - CNN.com
Hmmm....That puts us at where we were before the surge correct?
That's insane to compare the number of Soldier deaths in Iraq with the murder rate of New York. New York City has 8.2 million people living there. Even the Bureau of Justice cites the murder rate per 100,000 people when comparing populations.
Why? There is approx. 7 million people in Baghdad... What does it matter what the method is of killing people? Where criminals over there prefer to blow people up, the people of New York choose different methods.
What I'm saying, is that people flip out over this crap because the media jumps all over any little incident and paints it as a picture of chaos all over Iraq. If CNN covered every murder in New York every day, we'd think New York was just as violent....and wonder why the police even bother.
It's not insane at all to compare the two. Did you know the Texas border is just as dangerous as Iraq is? The media doesn't harp on it like they do every little incident in Iraq. If they did, you'd be hearing about incidents every day.