American Deaths In Iraq Fall To Lowest Ever Since Beginning Of The War
It’s almost like our objective of a secure Iraq with a representative government is, uh, completed or something.
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. deaths in Iraq fell in October to their lowest monthly level of the war, matching the record low of 13 fatalities suffered in July. Iraqi deaths fell to their lowest monthly levels of the year. Eight of the 13 Americans died in combat, most of them in northern Iraq where al-Qaida and other Sunni insurgent groups remain active. The U.S. military suffered 25 deaths in September and 23 in August.
In Afghanistan, meanwhile, 15 U.S. military deaths were reported for October. The monthly toll in that combat theater had been in the 20s since June, when 28 Americans were killed - the worst one-month total since that war began in late 2001.
The sharp drop in American fatalities in Iraq reflects the overall security improvements across the country following the Sunni revolt against al-Qaida and the rout suffered by Shiite extremists in fighting last spring in Basra and Baghdad.
On a related note, 2/3’s of Iraq is now under the direct control of the elected Iraqi government.
Just more evidence to show how painfully, horribly wrong Obama and the rest of the liberal left who said this war couldn’t be won were. Victory is at hand in Iraq, but nobody in the media cares because that might screw up their narrative on the war from the past five years.
And it obviously would be a terribly inconvenient thing to focus on right before the election.
