While I have Ace open in the other window, we’ll link another story from there, which matches the mold of the one about the deficit dropping to the lowest in five years…
Trend? Nah. I guess it’s only a story for conservative outlets like CNS News. The MSM wants the war officially won before they’ll lower themselves to reporting on it at all.
The casualty count from Iraq continues to decline for the first half of October, according to Department of Defense reports. In the first half of October, 14 casualties were reported, 12 of which were combat related. The most recent reported death was from Oct. 12.
Last year — during the same period — there were 44 deaths in Iraq, all but two combat related. That’s nearly three times the number of casualties as this year (for the first two weeks of October).
September 2007 marked a 14-month low in reported casualties — 68 deaths from Iraq, a drop in casualties the military credited to the 30,000 “surge” in troops that began in June. In the September totals, 41 deaths were from combat.
The first half of September had a total of 42 overall deaths, 27 of which were combat related — more than twice as many as the number reported for the first half of this month.
Yes, I would agree it’s a trend…. But I think it’s a different trend than what Ace in mind. The trend here really is in the headline: “all the news that fits the narrative gets printed”… if it doesn’t fit the narrative, it doesn’t get printed.
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