Analysis: Iraq statistics tell grim story

[VegasWolf]

By Martin Sieff
UPI Senior News Analyst
Published August 8, 2005

http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050808-124515-9860r

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WASHINGTON -- If the U.S. Army and its Iraqi allies are killing as many insurgents as reports indicate they are per month, why is the insurgency intensifying instead of collapsing?

The Bush administration has been extremely reluctant to comply with the requests of a Congress controlled by its own party and issue detailed figures, or "benchmarks" on progress in combating the insurgency. But a study of the best figures and estimates available publicly suggests that the level of attrition reported and widely believed to be inflicted on the insurgents is in reality a lot less than the figures indicate.

For if the figures widely quoted are accurate, then the insurgency should be either collapsing already or, at the very least, shrinking dramatically in its resources and capabilities as its combat units and intelligence networks should have been suffering unsustainable attrition.
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Very bad for bush baby, people are asking questions. This vacation
is not going well for him,

[thecrow]

1. dupe

[gratuitous]

2. Nuh uh!

They're in their last throes and running out of steam. Clap harder, dammit, or Tink buys the farm!

[NNN0LHI]

3. If they really killed all the Iraqis they say they have killed...

...there wouldn't be any more Iraqis left. Someone mentioned that to one of the propagandists a year or so ago and that was the end of the news conference.

Don

[StrafingMoose]

4. Because...

"If the U.S. Army and its Iraqi allies are killing as many insurgents as reports indicate they are per month, why is the insurgency intensifying instead of collapsing?"

While the US Army is fighting it, the neocon cabal's other arm (maybe CIA) is supporting the insurgency? If it's not the CIA, it's someone else with a _great_ interest to have endless turmoil in Iraq.