Why has the insurgency in Iraq has trippled since electing Democrats into congress.?

Question

This is according to:
http://usliberals.about.com/od/homelandsecurit1/a/IraqNumbers.htm
Estimated Insurgency Strength, Oct 2006 - 20,000 - 30,000
Estimated Insurgency Strength, March 2007 - 70,000

Daily Insurgent Attacks, July 2005 - 70
Daily Insurgent Attacks, Nov 2006 - 180
Daily Insurgent Attacks, Dec 2006 - 185

Why is the insurgency in Iraq attacking more and growing in size as the Democrats gain more political control in the United States?

I believe it is because the democrats have allied themselves with terrorism and the insurgency to gain political advantage in the United States. To me there is an obvious correlation between Democrats gaining political power and an increase in terrorism.

I was wondering how other people felt about it.

I notice that in spite of this data being from a liberal website most of the arguments against this data claim one of two things, the data is wrong (Liberal Democrats blaming themselves for supplying bad data) or that there is no real correlation between Democrats insisting we are losing the war and the Iraqi Insurgency growing. Both arguments lack common sense. The only reasonable argument pulled data from an original report showing a direct correlation to Democrat campaign strategy, as the Democrats campaigned, insisting that the United States withdraw from Iraq, the Insurgency increased more and more. The Insurgency continues to increase today.

Now that the Senate vote has passed there will be an escalation in the insurgency putting American Lives in more danger, both in the United States and abroad.

I wish there had been reasonable "leftest" answers.

Thanks for your answers. I will loose the 2 points and let this go to a vote since I am obviously biased.

Just as a side note, Have you ever noticed that Liberal Democrats like to stereotype centrists like me as sexually frustrated?

I believe this is because People who claim someone must not be getting laid are never getting laid and they want to believe people they disagree with must not be having sex either. Otherwise they would really feel miserable, imagine losing a debate to a smarter, better educated man in a sexually fulfilled relationship.

Here is a riddle for you; Why are Liberal Democrat men lousy in bed with women? Because Liberal Democrat women think faking an orgasm makes their men feel good about themselves when all it actually does is train them to be lousy lovers.

Here is a centrist secret; If you are a guy, tell your lover to never fake an orgasm because it is just bad feedback that turns into lousy sex.

Better feedback equals multiple orgasms for both partners.

Kind of makes me happy that Liberal Democrats will just blow off my opinion and advice.

Answer 1

Stop trying to blame the Democrats for a war started (and still controlled by) Republicans. The fact that you're trying to blame this on Democrat's just shows that you know how much your party has screwed up. Why don't you ask the Bush administration why they didn't have a proper strategy in the first place!

To imply that these two things are related is just poor logic. To say that Democrats are aligning themselves with terrorists is just pure stupidity.

Answer 2

Bush is the devil. Ignore the data from the liberal website because it is "slanted to the right". Democrats growing in power have nothing to do with the increase in the insurgency even though during the 2004 elections and after the insurgency went down as Republicans gained power. The war is all about oil, as if oil companies pay less for oil from Iraq than they pay for oil coming from Saudi Arabia. Ronald Regan supported terrrorism. I never heard so many dumb arguments against something that looks really obviuos.

Answer 3

You do realize the number of soldiers dying in Iraq has been escalating in the last year prior to the November elections don't you? And, the Daily insurgent attacks has been escalating daily since the beginning of the war. If you think liberals are allied with the terrorists, you're a fool. What is going on in Iraq is sectarian violence. The overwhelming amount of violence occuring is caused by extremist Sunni's against Shiites and extremist Shiites against Sunni's. This is a fact and has been well documented. Even our soldiers know it. Both factions work for their muslim clerics. The Shiites who dominate the Iraqie government, military and police have government sanctioned death squads making runs into Sunni neighborhoods and killing Sunni's execution style, in the back of the head. These Shiites don't work for the country of Iraq they work for the cleric Muhti al Sadr and go by his orders alone. The thing is al Sadr is now ordering his men to attack Americans. Here we are supporting the Iraqie government with weapons and money and they in turn, are handing it over to al Sadr's militia. Just who is GWB working for when this is happening. It sure isn't in supporting our troops.
The correlation between Democrats and increase in terrorism that you made is based on ignorance and lack of information. Please pull your head out of Fox News and read some books and newspapers for a change.
The Bush administration started this war based on lies. they also went into the country not knowing it's history or culture. They are the occupying force now that most Iraqies want out of their country. Even generals in the Pentagon have admitted that this will not be resolved militarily. It will have to be resolved politically.

Answer 4

I'm thinking because the islamic elements mulahs keep twisting the Koran to thier own purpose. they do not like people that think for themselves, especially women. How can you have respect for a religeon thats condons the killing of women and children or that severs heads with a handsaw...not in my book of rules! my umpire to keep the rules? a Barrett 50...reasoning and truth do not work if you live in the stone age mentally.thanks,ron...good job. My God condons helping others showing mercy and caring. Our book says thou shalt not murder...what do you call a carbomb (try asassination, ie; premeditated murder. but thats ok cuz thier time is running out! think about 2012, and lets see how much power you get out of your turbines!

Answer 5

Other people feel you are a neocon dupe. Peel your lips off the Bush administrations @ss and help them wash the blood off all the blood money Haliburton and the rest of the coven has stolen on behalf of vampire repugnants like Cheney and the rest of you elitist wasp conservative parasites. It's not a Republican vs Democrat or a liberal vs conservative problem. It is an American problem, but people like you won't step away from the hog trough long to choke on your own BS, you swallow too fast.

Sometimes I think you really believe the garbage you spew, then I realize you were probably the kid who got picked on and bullied in grade school, so now your using you bank account to substitute for short comings else where in your pitiful creepy existence. The injustice of the Iraq war coupled with the theivey and distruction of America by neocon elitist scum is maybe the greatest single act of terrorism in the history of humanity.

Your globalist facsim is doomed to failure, evil such as you represent cannot last long so enjoy your riches you elitist pig. Even the villiage idiot catches on eventually and the vast majority of the public is sick of you people.

Answer 6

The speaking snake instructed Eve that they might grow to be like gods in the event that they ate the fruit, so for sure atheism had not something to do with it. in spite of everything, in those days God talked directly to Adam and Eve, so they might infrequently be atheists. Atheism might desire to basically have been around for the reason that he stopped making such appearances.

Answer 7

Its common sense that if the insurgents believe they are winning and the world thinks they are winning, they will be able to recruit easier.

We can thank Harry Reid and his "The war is lost" rhetoric.

Answer 8

Of course democrats haven't done as much as they would have liked; however, everyone knows how hard is to fix something someone else didn't manage to finish up and wars are nasty and let's just face it they always bring fatalities on both sides the winner and the loser.

And I don't think the terrorist really care if you are democrat or republican, they see every American as an enemy; nevertheless, of his or her political association.

And also if Democrats would want to do something more about Iraq they would get stopped by Bush, and in order to achieve something they would block Bush. So both institutions are in a gridlock.

And at least it's my opinion we shouldn't have started the war at all because at least all THAT I can see is countless fatalities in both American soldiers and innocent civilians Iraq. So what that we overthrew the government I think that Iraques feel even worse now because when terrorists attack they don't care if they are not American soldiers. And at least I think US has scarred the country even more.

Answer 9

The data show nothing of the kind. Follow your link and go to the original source of the data - The Brookings Report - page 21. You will see that the 70,000 figure was for Sunnis and included "non-operational supporters" the October figure was for militias (basically operationalm members with arms). Its apples and oranges.

As far as insurgent attacks your numbers jump from 70 in July '05 tp 180 in November '06. You need to fill in the intervening months. In October '06 the figure was 170, in September it was 160, in August it was 140. Go to page 26 of the report to see the graph for yourself that there was a steady increase before November. In fact the August October jump of 30 attacks/.day is double the October to December jump.

It would be silly to argue that a Democratic Congress cut the rate of increase in half, but....

Examine the stats and you will see no major change in direction after the election - perhaps even a decrease in activity as the surge began.

Answer 10

In 1979 there were hostages being held in the middle East. At the time there was an election going on and these hostages were a big issue in the eyes of the public. The terrorists refused to talk to Pres Carter. As soon as Pres Reagan is swore in to office the hostages are released. May be its just coincidence but it looks suspicious enough.
Keep in mind most politicians will do just about anything to get elected. Even if its at the expense of others.

Answer 11

Quoting different statistics side by side doesn't mean that they have anything to do to each other.

The population of panda bears in 2004 was 1,600. Two years later it rose to a total of 3,000. The Iraq war was also happening during these years. By your logic, this should mean that an increase in pandas means an increase in terrorism.

As in any multi-dimensional issue, you can never boil it down to black and white. Unless you're talking about terrorist pandas. Then go right ahead.