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News :: Elections & Legislation : Government Secrecy : International Relations : Iraq : Regime |
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Republicans Gather to Congratulate Bush As Iraq War Death Total Passes 1,000 US Dead -- 81 British, Iraqi and others, not included. |
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by via Cryptome
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30 Aug 2004
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A significant and grim milestone in the occupation of Iraq has been reached -- 1,000 US dead. Yet this fact is scarcely mentioned in the midst of the coronation ceremonies going on at the RNC in New York. Yet this singular accomplishment of Bush's goes by without comment from most of the press. The trend lines described by J., who used info from the databse maintained by Cryptome, is a reminder that Iraq, and the sacrifices being made there, is something to be pushed out of the news when it comes to the hard facts, versus Bush's heroic rhetoric. After all, if you're in Bush's shoes, a potential future president isn't over there risking his life for a misguided policy, he or she is probably cooling his or her heels at an exclusive college taking part in Young Republican activities, since the poverty draft is the only draft we have now. No need for any National Guard evasions (and besides, that'd be too dangerous for a future president, since the Guard and Reserve are now in the thick of it, unlike when Bush safely dodged combat during Vietnam.) |
Updated 30 August 2004. Total 1,000 US Dead -- 81 British, Iraqi and others, not included.
J. writes:
I have been using your site to analyze the pattern of US military deaths in the Iraq/Afghanistan invasion and occupation. I was surprised when I recently updated my spreadsheet with data since June 8. I had expected to see a decline in the number of deaths since the beginning of the "Iraqi" government on June 28, 2004. However, my analysis shows that deaths per day has actually increased from 1.83 deaths per day (during the pre-Iraq Occupation phase) to 2.02 deaths per day in the post-Iraqi government phase (the invasion phase had 4.12 deaths per day).
Another way to view this data is to examine linear regression lines of deaths per day. When I first plotted this data in April 2004, the regression including the invasion phase trended downward, with expected deaths per day reaching zero sometime in 2006. The regression line excluding the invasion phase trended upward, with expected deaths steadily climbing over time.
As of August 27, 2004, both regression lines now trend upward, with no end in sight. Moreover, the predicted death per days since April closely fit the actual deaths per day. I have watched how stories of US military deaths were almost always covered by yahoo.com, up until the Iraqi government installation. At that time, reporting of US deaths has fallen off almost completely, despite an actual increase in deaths per day.
No wonder Mr. Bush's popularity stopped sliding so fast.
Source: http://www.dod.mil/releases/archive.html
15 July 2003
For the current update:
http://cryptome.org/mil-dead-iqw.htm |
See also:
http://cryptome.org
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