But Dubya said the Surge is Working?
posted by
Wally
7:26 AM
Did he use these two reports as evidence? Suicides Among Active-Duty Soldiers Reach Record High
Suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2007 reached their highest level since the Army began keeping such records in 1980, according to a draft internal study obtained by The Washington Post. Last year, 121 soldiers took their own lives, nearly 20 percent more than in 2006.
At the same time, the number of attempted suicides or self-inflicted injuries in the Army has jumped sixfold since the Iraq war began. Last year, about 2,100 soldiers injured themselves or attempted suicide, compared with about 350 in 2002, according to the U.S. Army Medical Command Suicide Prevention Action Plan.
The conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have placed severe stress on the Army, caused in part by repeated and lengthened deployments. Historically, suicide rates tend to decrease when soldiers are in conflicts overseas, but that trend has reversed in recent years. From a suicide rate of 9.8 per 100,000 active-duty soldiers in 2001 -- the lowest rate on record -- the Army reached an all-time high of 17.5 suicides per 100,000 active-duty soldiers in 2006.
Remember how the Republicans were squealing about how the military was broken and morale at an all time low back in 2001 after 8 years of Democratic Presidency? Looks like Bush and the Republicans did a "heck of a job" fixing that problem. That a great plan Dubya had - raising morale by giving those bored soldiers something to do - starting a couple of wars and sending them overseas to keep them busy and out of trouble.
It's working as well as anything else he and the Republicans have done in the past 7 years. What's that term again? Oh yeah - Miserable Failure.
Another sign of the the startling progress that's been made in Iraq comes from this report.Million Iraqis dead since invasion
A new study estimates that more than 1 million Iraqis have died because of the war in Iraq since the US-led invasion of the country in 2003.
Data compiled by London-based Opinion Research Business (ORB) and its research partner in Iraq, the Independent Institute for Administration and Civil Society Studies (IIACSS) reveals a fifth of Iraqi households lost at least one family member between March 2003 and August 2007 due to the conflict.
"We now estimate that the death toll between March 2003 and August 2007 is likely to have been in the order of 1,033,000," ORB said in a statement.
The margin of error for the survey was 1.7 per cent, making the estimated range between 946,000 and 1.12 million fatalities. Mission Accomplished!
Everything Bush touches turns to death and destruction. Can we end this occupation and bring our troops home now? Haven't we done enough damage yet?
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