Counting the dead is only a small part of the picture. Beside the 'dead', there are the blinded, the maimed, the burned and those suffering from acute and long term mental problems from the stress of seeing the effects of violence or anticipating it. Then there's the growing lack of electrical power, sewers that don't work and clean water that's becoming scarce. Hospitals have less staff, schools have less security, over a 10th of the pre-war population, mostly professional people and business people have fled the country. The militas may have run out of handy targets as many neighborhoods are already 'ethnicly cleansed'..which may be reflected in the total number of daily killings. Wadda' 'ya think?
2007-09-25 17:34:46 · 8 answers · asked by Noah H 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
There does appear to be some progress, but there is still little hope of a political settlement.
2007-09-25 17:56:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They changed what counts as "violence " , and.... Voila! Less violence . Shot in the back of the head counts . Shot in the front doesn't .That's "Crime" . Casualties from car bombs don't count . Shia on Shia, Sunni on Sunni mayhem don't count . The numbers are cooked 50 different ways ( at least ) .Some areas are empty, or ethnically/ religiously cleansed, so there's nobody left to kill. Reports on economic activity : ditto. Telling one of our survey people that you INTEND to open, or re-open a business , is counted as open .Some of those "markets" you see on the news, were set up by Petraeus . Just for show, or "Build it and they will come.", or both ????? Only he knows . So ,........ the real numbers are just a guess . Independent attempts to to figure it out, show violence is up sharply this year, except for June . Nobody knows why not June, or or if that is accurate , or just some as yet unreported numbers need to be counted. Whether things are better or worse , depends on which Iraqis you ask, & where . All-in-all , a big ?????????????????
2007-09-25 17:49:09 · answer #2 · answered by mikeinportc 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
There have been quite a few historians stating this past year that if new medical capabilities were as advanced, the death toll would be close to that of the Vietnam War.
While I am glad our troops are surviving due to this, at the same time, the number of 'injured for life' is astronomical and should be recognized.
2007-09-29 17:12:52 · answer #3 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is much more to this question and the general and Bush haven't been doing much counting until recently.
Bush doesn't even attend soldier's funerals. He already stated that they don't count civilians.
Even though there are over a million civilians dead.
2007-09-25 18:16:36 · answer #4 · answered by Twilight 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well... yes I agree... but that's how we've been measuring violence so far...
but also... how down are they and is this just a "slow period"?
there have been many other months that were "down" and then it shoots right back up again the next month... we need sustained numbers that are decreasing from month to month for several months to really talk about anything concrete... and I don't think we've had that yet...
2007-09-25 17:40:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is nothing new
The same thing was done in Nam to desensitize the war.
People bought it for a long time.
Now we should know better -- but many of us can not learn the lessons of the past.
Our leadership are prime examples of that, on both sides of the isle.
Peace
Jim
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2007-09-25 17:38:42 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
They don't care about the injured, all they care is that the oil reaches America in safety.
2007-09-25 17:38:21 · answer #7 · answered by Fizz 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
yeah,yeah,yeah
2007-09-25 17:42:28 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 4⤋