Richard Cheney Observes 2

http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2007/08/richard-cheney-observes.html The Vice President did some odd things with mortality statistics in the above post and we had to have recourse to the actual figures to make sense of things. That is one thing I have noticed about Iraq death figures: they rarely are consistent from one source to another in as much as one figure will lead to widely differing interpretations, so much so that I have frequently had the experience of being mystified and wondering what was going on. Richard Cheney had that effect on me for he said that the "Surge" ( "Il Surgiamento") was working and the proof was that July, 2007 had the lowest number of deaths since January, 2007. Then the very next day I read that July, 2007 has the HIGHEST number of deaths for any July in the war! So off to the casualty figures. Today I see in the Progressive Review a graph of the figures, clearly showing the increases of 2007 over 2006: http://prorev.com/index.htm

This chart, prepared by Angry Bear, shows that GI Iraq fatalities in 2007 have exceeded those in 2006 each month so far.

Note that the estimated figure for August, 2007 is 107. My estimate was 101. Thanks to God, it was only 84. I think we may safely conclude that: The Surge is working to reduce the greatly increased Mortality of 2007 over 2006, and trying to keep it under control.