October 14, 2007
WELL, HE DID BETRAY MOVEON...:
Better Numbers: The evidence of a drop in violence in Iraq is becoming hard to dispute (Washington Post, October 14, 2007)
A congressional study and several news stories in September questioned reports by the U.S. military that casualties were down. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.), challenging the testimony of Gen. David H. Petraeus, asserted that "civilian deaths have risen" during this year's surge of American forces.A month later, there isn't much room for such debate, at least about the latest figures. In September, Iraqi civilian deaths were down 52 percent from August and 77 percent from September 2006, according to the Web site icasualties.org. The Iraqi Health Ministry and the Associated Press reported similar results. U.S. soldiers killed in action numbered 43 -- down 43 percent from August and 64 percent from May, which had the highest monthly figure so far this year. The American combat death total was the lowest since July 2006 and was one of the five lowest monthly counts since the insurgency in Iraq took off in April 2004.
During the first 12 days of October the death rates of Iraqis and Americans fell still further.
...by succeeding. Posted by Orrin Judd at October 14, 2007 6:56 PM
Well, if the hard Left is that invested in American defeat, perhaps they could start recruiting insurgents and send them over to Iraq.
After all, Western suicide attackers disguised as journalists would surely be front-page news, no?
Posted by: ratbert at October 14, 2007 9:58 PMDidn't they do that for the Spanish civil war? They don't make Leftists like they used to.....
Posted by: Robert Mitchell Jr. at October 14, 2007 10:38 PMNow they can't wait to tell everyone that they voted for the War.
Posted by: ic at October 14, 2007 11:43 PMHe did not betray Moveon. You have to let Moveon believe you were one of them, e.g. you would vote to cut off funding when you were elected to Congress, then voted the opposite once you were in. Or you betrayed the American people by voting for the war, then voted to cut off funding to please your primary voters, e.g. the Senator from NY. The General had never insinuated himself into the Moveon crowd and had never promised to do anything except to win the war. Thus, the General has betrayed no one, not even Moveon.
Posted by: ic at October 15, 2007 12:05 AM