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hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-28-08 02:54 PMOriginal messageIs the surge working? Advertisements [?]The M$M seems to think so, and so does a recent Op-ed in my local paper.So I am working on an LTTE, and here is what I have so far.First, on Mar. 26, 2004, Joseph Perkins wrote an Op-ed titled "Why the Iraq war is a success". Before he retired, Perkins columns were featured in my paper and so were my LTTEs calling Perkins mean-spirited and factually challenged. My point being that Republicans have "declared imminent victory" almost every week since the Iraq war began.Since the surge began, there have been 806 US casualties. The numbers for the last four months are low - 38, 37, 23, 40. However, that's not the first time this has happened either. December 2003 - March 2004, the numbers were 40, 47, 20 and 52. May 2003 - September 2003, the numbers were 37, 30, 48, 35, 31.According to Iraq Body Count, which gets numbers from multiple news reports, 53 Iraqi civilians died per day in 2007. That's over 19,000 people per year. That's better than 2006, when 64 Iraqis died per day, but worse than 2005 when only 32 died per day.It's costing billions of dollars. Bush got another $120,000,000,000 supplemental in May 2007 and is asking for another $102,400,000,000. That's over $2,000 per household just in the last 18 months, and it is enriching contractors like Halliburton and Blackwater.Finally, if the surge is working, what's the estimate for when our troops will come home? Republicans won't say, but McCain said it might be 50 to 100 years.Refresh | 0 Recommendations Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top
bluestateguy (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-28-08 02:56 PMResponse to Original message1. This month was the worst since October 661 Iraqi civillian and security forces killed, and the month isn't over yet. In October there were 679. Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top
FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-28-08 02:58 PMResponse to Original message3. It's working as intended. (Goes without saying, I know) More money for Halliburton.More flag waving at home.More civil rights taken away.Dems afraid to do anything about it.The M$M is just Bush's mouthpiece so, of course, they think it's working too. Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top
wienerdoggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-28-08 03:01 PMResponse to Original message4. It's working, because we're still there, until the end of the Chimpy administration-- that's all it was meant to do--prolong the occupation. And it's working as long as billions of our dollars are flowing into defense contractors' pockets, and the oil is being controlled by multinationals, and we keep putting our sons and daughters into the meat grinder to feed the money-making enterprise. Printer Friendly | Permalink | Reply | Top
Is the surge working?
hfojvt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Thu Feb-28-08 02:54 PMOriginal messageIs the surge working?
