Thread: Violence way down in Iraq

Kurdish gen.: brigade trains for Baghdad - Yahoo! News

"......... at least 11 people were killed or found dead, including a Sunni cleric who was shot to death near his home in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad and five who were slain in separate attacks in northern Iraq, according to police."

This is down from 100 per day over the past months. I believe this number also includes all of the regular, non-sectarian murders in Baghdad. The Liberal Press won't tell us, however.

Ah you see? I theorized that violence would be down after Saddam's death.

By the way, I thought you considered Yahoo! to be part of the Liberal press...

Originally Posted by Feslin

Ah you see? I theorized that violence would be down after Saddam's death.

By the way, I thought you considered Yahoo! to be part of the Liberal press...

Read the article, the headline is NOT "Violence down in Iraq" as it should be. They wet their pants when it goes up, though.

So far in Jan 2007 17 us deaths, Acts of violence...well you count

Originally Posted by michaelr

So far in Jan 2007 17 us deaths, Acts of violence...well you count

are you saying that is a lot or a very few. It is the least by the standards of every other American War.

Originally Posted by RonaldReaganRocks

are you saying that is a lot or a very few. It is the least by the standards of every other American War.

Of course, body counts are way down compared to anything in history. Its due to improved techniques and technology. Medicine is light years ahead of what it was in Vietnam. Soldiers can be rushed off the battlefield and choppered to a hospitol in no time.

Regardless of how much I disagree with anything else you say in this thread, and the reasoning behind it, we all need to appreciate and be thankful for this fact. It has saved a lot of lives. If I ever get hurt, anywhere, I want a US medic right there for me.

Originally Posted by RonaldReaganRocks

Kurdish gen.: brigade trains for Baghdad - Yahoo! News

"......... at least 11 people were killed or found dead, including a Sunni cleric who was shot to death near his home in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad and five who were slain in separate attacks in northern Iraq, according to police."

This is down from 100 per day over the past months. I believe this number also includes all of the regular, non-sectarian murders in Baghdad. The Liberal Press won't tell us, however.

WTF are "regular" murders?

The violence will never be far enough down in Iraq however far it falls, there will always be violent deaths, that is how new governments work. Until someone that can bind together all the Iraq people comes, they will keep blowing each other up, and since we are trying to get in the middle, us.

Originally Posted by Properman

The violence will never be far enough down in Iraq however far it falls, there will always be violent deaths, that is how new governments work. Until someone that can bind together all the Iraq people comes, they will keep blowing each other up, and since we are trying to get in the middle, us.

Well we are going to be waiting a long time then. The best option is to divide the country between the Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish populations and equally distribute income from oil. Thats should stabilize the region to a degree.

I think it's about the same, and as for standards from wars past, you might attribute some of that to superior body armor. As of 12-31-06 there have been 22728 wounded.