U.S. military deaths in July of each of the past five years, in Iraq:
July 2003: 48
July 2004: 54
July 2005: 54
July 2006: 43
July 2007: 80
U.S. military deaths in Iraq, this year, with 2006 figures in parens:
January: 83 (62)
February: 81 (55)
March: 81 (31)
April: 104 (76)
May: 126 (69)
June: 101 (61)
July: 80 (43)
So, exactly how is the surge working? Michael O’Hanlon of the “liberal” Brookings Institution said, “I think we have reduced the amount of violence overall.” Um…Maybe he doesn’t understand numbers so good. If you want to say that the violence decreased in July, you may have a point, but the violence always decreases in July in the Mideast – it’s a jillion degrees there, and even psychos with bombs get heat stroke.
Iraqi citizens also had an increase in month-to-month and year-to-year casualties, of approximately 25% in both cases. So, while U.S. military casualties in July went down from June, the Iraqi casualties actually increased. But the surge is working.
* for some values of “working” that can’t be measured
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