Report: Terrorism stats are skewed by Iraq attacks »
Posted By libsRfunny 1 year, 1 month ago in NewsReports of an increase in terrorist violence around the world have been distorted by the high number of civilian casualties in Iraq, and omitting those deaths reveals a decline in terrorism... The Human Security Brief 2007 said that without the figures from Iraq, fatalities from terrorism have declined by some 40 percent since 2001.
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libsRfunny1 year, 1 month ago
A 40 percent decline since 2001. So much for the "We can't win the war on terror" BS. Then again, a year ago, Democrats like Reid and Pelosi declared Iraq a lost war. Now Pelosi has changed her mind and says Iraq's government is doing well.
Thank goodness our president had the sanity to veto those war defunding bills.
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Aidenag1 year, 1 month ago
This is priceless, just exclude a country and the 'world' is a better place...
Why didn't anyone think of this before? it magically solves all problems. If only we had done this for Rwanda and Serbia in the 90's, we could have shown how genocide was actually going down... Or Burma, North Korea, Zimbabwe, Sudan and so forth for human rights.
This could do wonders for US statistics too. lets exclude a US state or city too whenever we find it isn't cooperating with a statistic in the way we would like. You know, if we exclude Texas from teen birth rates, we could make the nation look better. Or D.C. for crime, or California for Gangs. or West Virginia for education/poverty levels. Heck, we could even go as far as to exclude states with high foreclosure and bankruptcy rates to show how 'great' the economy is doing even...
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djn3nunez31 year, 1 month ago
"Now we find ourselves policing another nation's civil war. We are less secure from the many threats to our national security than we were when the war began. As long as we follow the President's path in Iraq, the war is lost. But there is still a chance to change course and we must change course. No one wants us to succeed in the Middle East more than I do. But there must be a change of course. Our brave men and women overseas have passed every test with flying colors. They have earned our pride and our praise. More important, they deserve a strategy worthy of their sacrifice."
That was before troop escallation. Before bribing the Sunni's and before the cease fire agreement between Sadr and Maliki.
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Klarissa1 year, 1 month ago
More people are killed in automobile accidents than in the war.
Time to do something about the automobile.
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Commodore11 year, 1 month ago
Well it's hard to convince liberals of this. They need 6 months to let it sink in. Then they go, "Hey! Wow!".
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abntv1 year, 1 month ago
Its about time someone brought this out into the light. You can yell and scream all you want to about Iraq numbers being left in or taken out but at the end of the day, the facts are still the facts.
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djn3nunez31 year, 1 month ago
I have no problem discounting the deaths caused by the Bush inspired civil war in Iraq from the death count due to terrorism world wide. Most of the insurgents in Iraq are not foriegner, they're Iraqis. I certainly don't credit the Bush led invasion and occupation of Iraq for the decline (although I do credit all the deaths in Iraq to the blunderous decision to invade Iraq as a part of the War on Terror). I would credit the decline to the increase security world wide after the 9-11 attacks.
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Gransater1 year, 1 month ago
Somehow I get the idea that some on this thread are alluding to the fact that because we are in Iraq, it automatically follows that a decline in terrorism is due to that fact alone. Well, I couldn't disagree more. Sure, it has most likely had an effect, but far from the 40 percent mentioned, especially on a global level.
Not counting terrorist acts inside Iraq is nothing but semantics and point of view, items that are allready hotly debated here and elsewhere, so I'll discount them.
Now, as to the rest of the world. Has it by any chance occured to those who insist that our actions are the cause of the "decline", that just maybe, dramatically increased security measures undertaken by all of the worlds countries police, border, imigration, security, customs etc departments have had a hand in reducing incidents.
It seems highly naive to attribute this decline solely on ours and other countries actions in a limited geographic area as the one reason for said decline.
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Gransater1 year, 1 month ago
And also, if we are going to exclude Iraq as an "anomaly", wouldn't it be interesting to see these same figures after excluding the tragedy of 9/11, treating that horrible days fatalities as an "anomaly" aswell. What kind of picture would then be presented to us?
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Endoscopy1 year, 1 month ago
One of the reasons the terrorism is down elsewhere is bin Laden says that Iraq is extremely important and they are sending people there instead of elsewhere. Other terrorist groups are going along with it. Fine with me. They can go fight our army there rather then here. Right into the teeth of the buzz saw. The Iraqi people are pointing them out to the Iraq army and police, and our army. Their life expectancy keeps getting shorter. Keep them coming.
Poor neophile, his side must be losing.
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