Friday, September 19, 2008
A note on casualties in Iraq
No American soldier has died from hostile action in Iraq in the last fifteen days. Since June 26 -- 85 days ago -- there have been only 18 American KIA. How many Americans know that?
One of these months the last American will die from enemy action in Iraq. If that happens while there are still a great many Americans in country, we will have won. If it happens only because we have pulled our soldiers out of Iraq, our enemies will say that they won. There is a difference.
6 Comments:
By 
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Fri Sep 19, 10:09:00 AM:
That is great news. We are winning the war that some Democrats tried very hard to lose, for political gain. Unfortunately, that fact has been buried under the fold on page 26.
By , at
Fri Sep 19, 10:25:00 AM:
Yeah, but how many have died in the weapons free, democrat, community organizer controlled cities of Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit?
By , at
Fri Sep 19, 11:19:00 AM:
Yeah, but how many have died in the weapons free, democrat, community organizer controlled cities of Chicago, Philadelphia and Detroit?
Collateral damage is inevitable in war, or so a Marxist would say, and so many Democrats are Marxists in everything but name.
By , at
Fri Sep 19, 12:29:00 PM:
One of these months the last American will die from enemy action in Iraq. If that happens while there are still a great many Americans in country, we will have won.
I take your point, but there is yet another: Iraq is but one front in what seems destined--as our President declared at the outset--to be a very long war. We will have won when Iran, SA, Yemen, Lebanon, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Indonesia, the US, and yes Israel, among others, are free of threat from Islamic extremism. The citizens of this world no longer suffer an existential threat from Nazism or Japanese Imperialism for one reason only, and that is because the people and concepts that fueled these ideologies were defeated and replaced with something better.
We are on our way to that end, engaged, and succeeding. But I do hope we don't declare victory too soon.
By 
lamikens, at
Fri Sep 19, 01:06:00 PM:
Any news out of Iraq is spun as negatively as possible.
For example, fifteen days ago Seattle's KIRO radio, the #1 rated news station led with this:
"the death marks 2008 as the deadliest year for us forces in Iraq".
End of story, no context, no mention of the dramatic decline in casualties since the "Surge", nothing.
By Count Grecula, at
Fri Sep 19, 06:15:00 PM:
Last month I asked a friend- a center- right college professor married to my co-blogger- how many troops she thought were killed in Iraq that month. Her answer? 200.
It's never been 200, and the fact that she was off by 190 or so was a major revelation to us both.
It was around this time that my liberal commenters started pushing the "well Afghanistan is much more important anyway" line.
It's hard to score a point when the goal posts keep moving, eh?
