The numbers obtained by The Times indicated that civilian deaths numbered 1,991 in January, dropped to 1,646 in February — the month the security plan began — then rose to 1,872 in March.
The trend they indicated was similar to that suggested by the website icasualties.org, which monitors civilian and military deaths in Iraq and bases its count on news reports. It estimates that 4,766 civilians died nationwide from January through March: 1,711 in January, 1,381 in February, and 1,674 in March. For the same period in 2006, the website put the total at less than half that: 2,179.
Friday, April 27, 2007
BENCHMARKING THE SURGE
The LA Times (4/26/07) did a little digging and came up with these numbers:
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News reports, huh? That's a traditionally reliable source. Just ask Dan Rather [not tell the truth.]
I agree that news organizations sometimes get the facts wrong but they are not in the business of doing so, unlike right-wing media. As Matt Labash, an editor at the Weekly Standard put it, we are always subjective.
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