This story was about the bad news dominating and none of the good news getting told. Thank you for once again proving the point. You want to prove it a fourth time WOOF?

I suspect that you will,…it seems you can’t help yourself.

“its to dangerous to leave the bunker [read: hotel - ed.]” excuse is bunk

Wasn’t the Egyptian Ambassador ambushed a few weeks ago and the Egyptians consequently pulled out of Iraq?
How many Iraqi Ministers have been killed in the last month?
Steven Vincent a reporter for the CS Monitor was killed last week and what 20 American troops?
Americans are not stolling out of the Green Zone to buy ice cream and visit the local schools.

Why do you believe this 47 embassies story?
Where are these embassies? Attribute the claims please?

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2004/09/28/international/29ATTACK-GRAPH.html

That’s another good reminder. Although I feel bad for all the soldiers who died and their families, there was no draft for this war, so every one of these men and women consientiously signed up for the military knowing the chances of there being a war.

Steven Vincent a reporter for the CS Monitor was killed last week and what 20 American troops?

He was killed in Basra, and not by terrorists. My understanding is that he “stepped over the line” in the local culture. This could have happened anywhere in Arabia and while brutal is not prohibitive of security risks unique to Iraq.

Americans are not stolling out of the Green Zone to buy ice cream and visit the local schools.

The green zone is in Baghdad. I suppose its not lost on you that the borders of Baghdad don’t encompass the entire country. If you look at the pattern of attacks, most of them are concentrated in the Sunni provinces and in Baghdad. Baghdad is a high-value target for the insurgency. If they lose the capacity to inflict terror on Baghdad their cause is lost.

30 days, 2,368 attacks.

I am numbed to this argument. Before the war started I heard of how we were going to loose 10′s of thousands in the first wave. If there was less of the parroting of ONLY this type of news the Terrorist wouldn’t bother to try so hard… Terrorism only works if people hear about it… 24 hours a day… 7 days a week… 365…. You get the idea.

You prove the very reason for the story WOOF. It appears as though you are afraid of the good news and feel the need to counter it with bad.

I hope that I wasn’t too subtle: “WOOF said, 30 days, 2,368 attacks.” That was October, 2004.

So not only did he feel the need to counter it with bitter rhetoric, he fished up data that are nearly a year old to support it.

You prove the very reason for the story WOOF. It appears as though you are afraid of the good news and feel the need to counter it with bad.

US troop deaths by month 2005

8-2005 55 as of 8/16
7-2005 54
6-2005 78
5-2005 80
4-2005 52
3-2005 36
2-2005 58
1-2005 107

http://icasualties.org/oif/

These numbers do not mention the Iraqi Police ,Soldiers and civilians killed or wounded.