Things Are Not Rosy In Iraq
Keith_Indy on Jan 08 2008 at 2:21 pm | Filed under: Keith's Page, Notes on the war
But, I’ve never claimed that, and AFAIK, nobody I’ve read is claiming that. The argument that we are claiming things are rosy is a strawman, pure and simple.
What is being claimed is that security is improving. There are other improvements, but I’m only going to deal with security here. One measure of security is the number of deaths in Iraq for civilians and soldiers.
Deaths over the entire year are up by 10% for soldiers, making 2007 the deadliest year. But, the last 3 months have also been the least deadliest months of the last 5 years (comparing Oct/Nov/Dec of 2007 to Oct/Nov/Dec of the previous 4 years.) And we are also below the historical averages for these months. They’ve also been steadily decreasing since May.
Civilian deaths have been significantly decreasing since July, and have been below historic averages for the last 3 months.
Here is a chart representing this data. Of course, like all statistics, one’s analysis of them can vary depending on ones point of view.
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Things are rosy.
Defeatocrat!
Ok, they’re not rosy, but how about tulip-y?