Tell it to the woman crying in the photo (click down once, reader).
Besides the fact that it is not even true!
The real totals are about 35 people are being killed every day -- on the rise over the summer -- and the number of Iraqis killed by the surge is around 300 per day, 10,000 per month by U.S. operations in that country, with over 1.2 million Iraqis dead since the invasion.
I am beginning to believe that the Muslims (who have inter-married and lived together for thousands of years) are not killing each other at all.
Any coincidence that the sectarianism lie we are told did not exist until AFTER WE GOT THERE?
I mean, the U.S. has the the Asymmetrical Warfare Group operating in country.
It has also developed programs such as Operation Gladio, Operation Northwoods, the Salvador Option, and the Pentagon's "Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group."
And what about the British agents who are the stars of the Prop 201 tutorial?
"Iraqi Violence Ebbed in September, Reports Say" by PAUL von ZIELBAUER
BAGHDAD, Oct. 1 — The number of violent civilian deaths in Iraq dropped precipitously in September compared with the previous month, an Iraqi government official and an independent monitoring group said Monday.
The general downward trend in violence was also apparent in the decline, to 63, in the number of American service members killed last month, from 84 in August, the American military reported Monday. That was the lowest monthly total in more than a year.
American military officials here quickly asserted that the decline in civilian and military deaths was a direct result of the rapid buildup of American forces in Iraq this year.
In September, 1,654 civilians were killed in Iraq, a 29 percent decline from the 2,318 civilians killed in August, according to an Interior Ministry official here. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity; American and Iraqi government officials here are reluctant to provide figures for civilian deaths.
[I was told 1,773 were killed in August. WTF?!]
The Iraqi official’s September civilian death count was much higher, and the percentage decline much smaller, than those seen in reports provided by other groups that regularly monitor civilian deaths in Iraq. For example, Iraq Body Count, a nongovernmental group based in Britain, said the number of civilian deaths in September was 1,280, compared with 2,575 in August, a reduction of nearly half.
Also on Monday, Reuters, citing information gathered from the Iraqi Health, Interior and Defense Ministries, also reported a 50 percent decline, but gave different figures, saying 884 civilians were killed in September — the lowest monthly total this year — compared with 1,773 in August.
Iraq Body Count had reported that violence against civilians in Iraq reached highs in the last six months of 2006, and that the first six months of 2007 was the most deadly first half for civilians of any year since the war began.
[But the SURGE IS WORKING!!!
Only been the WORST YEAR YET!]
The recent drop in violence against noncombatants in Iraq occurred during a time when Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia had promised to inflict more. Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia is a homegrown Sunni Arab extremist group that American intelligence has concluded is led by foreigners.
[Yeah, America called of it's "Al-CIA-Duh" dogs, that's why the "Al-CIA-Duh" violence has dropped.
Except it hasn't!]
An American military spokesman here said Sunday that attacks led by Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia in Anbar Province, Iraq’s largely Sunni western region, were down 38 percent compared with the same period last year.
While the number of American troops killed in September was the lowest monthly total seen this year, the fatality total through the first nine months of the year, 801, is more than 200 higher than what had been recorded through that period in any year since the war began.
[More AMERICANS being killed, too, shit fucks, but the SURGE IS WORKING!]
“The casualty figures are still too high,” the spokesman, Rear Admiral Mark I. Fox, said during a news conference in the fortified Green Zone. But he added, “The trend is in the right direction.”
[And the trend has been in the right direction for five years now, according to these military liars!]
In a joint statement, the top American civilian and military leaders in Iraq praised Iraq’s security forces, religious leaders and ordinary citizens.
The statement by Ryan C. Crocker, the American ambassador to Iraq, and Gen. David H. Petraeus, the commander of American forces:
“You and your fellow citizens have demonstrated resolve in the face of challenges posed by Iraq’s extremist enemies. Increasing numbers of citizens have rejected extremism.”
[Then we can get going and leave, right, Dave?]
The statement went on, also praising the followers of Moktada al-Sadr, the anti-American Shiite cleric who in August ordered his militia to cease fire against American troops.
[Then you will LEAVE THEM ALONE, right, shitter U.S.?
No, I'll bet next week Muqtada is Hitler reincarnated again!]
Meanwhile, as October arrived, a measure of violence in Iraq continued, against American forces and civilians. A car bomb exploded near a university in Mosul, in northern Iraq, killing a professor of agriculture and five other people, a police spokesman said. Also, 11 bodies were found in Baghdad, the Interior Ministry official said. In the southern city of Basra, an assassination attempt against the city’s chief of police failed, the police reported."
Well, at least that is more violence reported from yesterday than the Boston Globe (although notice the last paragraph placement, reader, as if an afterthought. Because it is!):
"Iraqi deaths fall by 50 percent" by Steven R. Hurst/Associated Press October 2, 2007
BAGHDAD - The Iraqi death count is considered a minimum based on AP reporting. The actual number is likely higher, as many killings go unreported.
[But we got surge success all around, or so the lying government and MSM tell us!]
Nevertheless, the heartening numbers emerged just three weeks after US Ambassador Ryan Crocker and General David Petraeus argued before a divided Congress that more time was needed for Iraq."
[Well, CUI BONO, huh, reader? So SICK of MSM and government lies!]
Here is what my American newspaper didn't print, but the web search did:
"Their message opened with greetings to the Iraqi people during the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims focus on their spiritual lives and fast from dawn to dusk.
Of particular note, the message referred to anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr by his honorific, Sayyid Muqtada. Sayyid is a title designating a religious figure as a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad.
[Glad they are finally showing Muqtada some respect!]
While civilian deaths were sharply lower last month, Baghdad remained the center of violence in percentage terms. For this year, 54 percent of all sectarian killings occurred in the capital and suburbs. That figure declined to just above 49 percent in September. For the year, the next two most violent regions were the provinces of Diyala and Nineveh.
The number of civilian deaths in Baghdad, 487, also far outstripped any other region in September. Next highest was Diyala province, an al-Qaida sanctuary immediately north and east of the capital, where 124 civilians were killed.
AP tallies civilian, Iraqi military and Iraqi police deaths each day as reported by police, hospital officials, morgue workers and verifiable witness accounts. The security personnel include Iraqi military, police and police recruits, and bodyguards. Insurgent deaths are not included.
[Then it is a SKEWED and INACCURATE NUMBERS!!!!!
Oh, man, are we ever being LIED TO about this WAR!!!!!
RIGHT FROM THE START, and it has NEVER STOPPED!!!!]
In the latest U.S. deaths, the military reported that an American soldier was killed and 10 were wounded Monday in combat operations in central Baghdad. The same day, a soldier was killed and another was wounded in a non-combat accident in Qadisiyah province.
[But U.S casualties are going down, too!!!]
In Washington, Senator Joseph Biden issued a statement clarifying what he said were misconceptions about a nonbinding Senate resolution that passed last week under his cosponsorship.
The resolution calls on the Bush administration to encourage the Iraqi government and parliament to adhere to the country‘s constitution, which lays out a plan for a loose confederation of regions under a limited central government, leaving the bulk of power with the regions.
Biden: "Since then, some political leaders in Iraq have misunderstood the amendment. Instead of working to clear up any misunderstandings about the Senate amendment, the U.S. embassy in Baghdad issued a statement that dangerously mischaracterizes it."
Biden said the amendment, co-sponsored by Republican Senator Sam Brownback:
"[It] does not call for the partition of Iraq. To the contrary, it calls for keeping Iraq together by bringing to life the federal system enshrined in its constitution. Partition, or the complete break-up of Iraq, is something wholly different than federalism. A federal Iraq is a united Iraq, but one in which power is devolved to regional governments with a limited central government responsible for protecting Iraq‘s borders and oil distribution.
Biden, adding that the resolution only calls for Iraqis to implement their constitution:
"It leaves the door open for stronger unity if and when passions cool, as we‘re seeing in the Balkans. Nor does the amendment call for dividing Iraq along sectarian lines."
[It is just fulling your Zionist wishes via the PNAC and "Clean Break" plans, right, Joe?
BALKANIZE IRAQ?]
