Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Explaining the Drop in Iraqi War Dead

By Robert Parry
December 1, 2009

The Iraqi government has announced that the civilian death toll for November – 88 – was the lowest since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, marking a two-year decline in killings that has corresponded with a less aggressive American military strategy and a pullback of U.S. troops to bases on city outskirts.

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3 comments:

RichardKanePA said...

When it came to Iraq al Qaeda overplayed it's hands getting almost all the locals mad. Maybe they will do so again, but so far they have been careful not to offend the Taliban.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=75663&sectionid=351020101
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/50581,news-comment,news-politics,iran-neocon-ally-war-al-qaeda-and-the-taliban-obama-gordon-brown-afghanistan-israel
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/08/hamas_and_al_qaeda_l.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/4736358/Al-Qaeda-founder-launches-fierce-attack-on-Osama-bin-Laden.html

Anyway this is Richard Kane, and I want to bug or educate the healthcare rallies, ect,, with "Back Obama but not the war" paraphernalia, google it, instead of allowing them to pretend the war doesn't exist.

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RichardKanePA said...

Some kind of problem posting,

longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/08/hamas_and_al_qaeda_l.php

telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/4736358/Al-Qaeda-founder-launches-fierce-attack-on-Osama-bin-Laden.html

presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=75663&sectionid=351020101

thefirstpost.co.uk/50581,news-comment,news-politics,iran-neocon-ally-war-al-qaeda-and-the-taliban-obama-gordon-brown-afghanistan-israel

RichardKanePA said...

IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED, TRY TRY AGAIN,

http://www.
longwarjournal.org/archives/
2009/08/hamas_and_al_qaeda_l.php

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