Violence is down over 80% in Baghdad and 74% in the country of Iraq.
2007-04-03 09:48:44 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
for one, he had nothing to do with the surge, and two, they dont give the peace prise to people who bend over and cave to pressure like mccain does.
2007-04-03 09:56:41 · answer #1 · answered by sydb1967 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Oh sure! this was why he felt so "safe" in Baghdad, he had to wear a flak jacket, be surrounded by over 100 soldiers in Humvees, 2 Apache and 3 Blackhawk helicopters.
All the insurgents have done is change tactics yet again. Instead of doing 6 IEDs, they just do one massive Chlorine gas bomb and a few IEDs.
Oh yeah it is soooo successful, the average death toll INCREASED from 1,646 to 2,078 -a jump of 15% . On average, 67 people died across the country every day in March, compared to 64 in February.
Whoo Hoo!!!!!
2007-04-03 09:51:03 · answer #2 · answered by thequeenreigns 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Iraq, a few weeks ago, allowed the Sunni to hold military and government positions again. With the secular violence between Shiite (new gov) and Sunni (old gov) I'm sure this played into it somehow.
2007-04-03 10:02:14 · answer #3 · answered by Alan S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
John Mc Cain should receive the Nobel Prize for lying about anything and selling himself and his country to gain his prized seat as president. Never gonna happen to that pathetic disgrace to his uniform.
2007-04-03 09:57:23 · answer #4 · answered by barefoot_yank 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
According to John McCain himself!
2007-04-03 09:50:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What does a US Senator have to do with this? No, there's 0 reasons or rationale for McCain to with the Peace Prize (which is a lefty-leaning sham, anyhow). I'm still laughing about their slap to USA's president in its response to 9/11 -- in 2001/02 by awarding Jimmy Carter the Nobel for doing nothing (but laughing all the way to bank). McCain needs to do better, to even win his party's nod for running-mate or President.
2007-04-03 09:51:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Actually violence is way up outside of Baghdad and car bombings are near record.
2007-04-03 10:02:30 · answer #7 · answered by Sid 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You might want to ask the Iraqi's in Baghdad what they think. Even Fox News is reporting that Baghdad merchants are calling his visit a propaganda ploy and that his assessment is inaccurate.
2007-04-03 10:02:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Links please.
Maybe violence was down 80% within a quarter mile of McCain's division of infantry, battalion of tanks, and squadron of Apache helicopters.
2007-04-03 09:56:55 · answer #9 · answered by powhound 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Where did you find those statistics? When I was in Iraq I would get daily reports of attacks in my area (I was in Baghdad)...never once was there a report with less than 22 deaths. That includes Iraqi on Iraqi and America on Iraqi (and vise versa). Please post where you have found that above information...I find it interesting.
2007-04-03 09:54:08 · answer #10 · answered by War Veteran 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋