Monday, January 01, 2007

Here's the bad news for al-P and other defeat fans: Deaths are down in Iraq. With the Lancet poll estimate at 655,000 dead since the US-led invasion of 2003, that means the average of more than 200,000 a year has dropped virtually off the charts! Even if you look at the worst case scenario, that the October 2004 estimate of only 100,000 dead is correct, that means we're down from an annual average of more than 65,000!

This is terrible news. It means there may actually be reason for hope in Iraq!