WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The insurgency in
Well, with 500 or so deaths last month alone, it seems our illustrious Veep has a rather unique vision of "last throes." So often we hear the chickenhawks bemoaning the fact that the press only reports bad news, that there's never any information about "all the good that we're doing" in Iraq. (This, of course, being a direct result of the rampant left-wing bias in the MSM which causes them to gleefully trumpet anything that might help tarnish the sterling image of George Bush and the Republican party).
And then we read something like this.
Sure there are things being accomplished, but any good news gets diminished and second-guessed after such shameless attempts to blow sunshine up everyone's ass. Note to Dick: believe it or not, we can tell the difference. Putting a good face on things is part of politics, but this asessment borders on the delusional.
34 days, 800+ casualties, most of them civilian.
"Last throes?"
It's an insult to the intelligence of the living and a slap in the face to the dead.
01 June 2005
Wish somebody had told them...
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Not that I'm a huge fan of the current admin or the current war, but, umm....
500 or so isn't that many.
Not for a war.
Casualty-wise, as wars go, we're doing pretty good.
Now, one man lost in an unjust war is too many, yadda, yadda, but casualties is something we can't really criticise this war on- comparatively speaking.
Not that I know the early numbers for any other war, but that doesn't really sound like that many.
A few more years, that will change- but for right now, we should stick to criticizing the admin. for the plethora of other things they're doing wrong.
Got my figures wrong. (and have since corrected). It was 820 casualties since 28.04.05. 78 servicemen/women, 200+ Iraqi security and police, and the rest ordinary citizens. With numbers like that, then enemy isn't exactly on the run.
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