February 28, 2007
— Ace Let me see if I have this straight. The spiralling sectarian violence was proof of the Iraq mission's utter failure, but reducing the number of deaths in Baghdad by a full 50% is "a small success."
Bodycount politics are fun, aren't they? US casualties are always trumpeted as a sign of failure; but Al Qaeda casualties are strangely absent from the pages of the big MSM papers or the nightly newscasts.
Why, it's almost as if the MSM seems to believe that no matter what the metrics and facts may show, we're always losing.
Anyway. The first three weeks of surge: a small success.
The Baghdad security operation has been under way less than three weeks but has already registered one small success: a sharp drop in the number of bullet-riddled bodies found in the streets victims of sectarian death squads.The number of bodies found so far this month in Baghdad most riddled with bullets and showing signs of torture has dropped by nearly 50 percent to 494 as of Monday night, compared with 954 in January and 1,222 in December, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press.
Since the crackdown was formally launched Feb. 14, a total 164 bodies had been found in the capital as of Monday, according to AP figures, which are compiled from police reports. The AP count showed 390 bodies were discovered during the same period in January.
In related news, the American rebels are believed to have managed "a small success" at Yorktown.
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Posted by: Scott Crawford at February 28, 2007 06:32 PM (Erboo)
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Posted by: Sinistar at February 28, 2007 06:32 PM (oHd6r)
What pray tell would it take for the AP to term something a large success?
Posted by: Drew at February 28, 2007 06:33 PM (gNyUT)
Los Alamos, New Mexico
Today scientists registered a trifling "success" when they tested the single most powerful weapon ever invented; however, lingering question remain as to the value and effectiveness of the cost-burdened program to create "superweapons" in support of a reckless administration's hegemonic, imperialist pursuits.....
Posted by: AP Wire at February 28, 2007 06:35 PM (Kz30m)
Posted by: at February 28, 2007 06:55 PM (Lj6C8)
Posted by: Neil "Moonbat" Armstrong at February 28, 2007 06:57 PM (xBdUl)
Gettysburg, PA
Today beleaguered Union troops celebrated a small success in driving back a determined Confederate Army drive led by General Robert E. Lee; however, this small success is marked against a backdrop of massive presidential unpopularity with what is frequently called "Mr. Lincoln's war"....
Posted by: AP Wire at February 28, 2007 07:06 PM (Kz30m)
Unfortunately.
We've got to nail the Sunnis before the clock runs out on the Shi'ite truce.
Posted by: geoff at February 28, 2007 07:16 PM (GJTEc)
Hastings, Sussex
This evening, the dispirited and demoralized troops of Norman upstart William duc de Normandie celebrated a small success in a small-scale, and almost certainly meaningless, engagement with the native Anglo-Saxon forces led by the second King Harold of England. While initial reports are that the King may have been slain towards the end of the engagement, locals did not seem to be impressed by the significance of the battle. Said Cnute Snotnose, local farmer, "I'se more interested in what that pretty little minstrel-girl what shaved her head is doin', come to think on it"....
Posted by: AP Wire at February 28, 2007 07:22 PM (Kz30m)
Posted by: Rex at February 28, 2007 07:23 PM (Z+NGy)
Hospital Officials Knew of Neglect
Complaints About Walter Reed Were Voiced for Years
By Anne Hull and Dana Priest
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, March 1, 2007; Page A01
Top officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, including the Army's surgeon general, have heard complaints about outpatient neglect from family members, veterans groups and members of Congress for more than three years.
A procession of Pentagon and Walter Reed officials expressed surprise last week about the living conditions and bureaucratic nightmares faced by wounded soldiers staying at the D.C. medical facility. But as far back as 2003, the commander of Walter Reed, Lt. Gen. Kevin C. Kiley, who is now the Army's top medical officer, was told that soldiers who were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan were languishing and lost on the grounds, according to interviews.
Steve Robinson, director of veterans affairs at Veterans for America, said he ran into Kiley in the foyer of the command headquarters at Walter Reed shortly after the Iraq war began and told him that "there are people in the barracks who are drinking themselves to death and people who are sharing drugs and people not getting the care they need."
"I met guys who weren't going to appointments because the hospital didn't even know they were there," Robinson said. Kiley told him to speak to a sergeant major, a top enlisted officer.
Posted by: Dalton at February 28, 2007 07:31 PM (zkeOi)
Posted by: ryan at February 28, 2007 07:34 PM (oektW)
Posted by: A Juicebox at February 28, 2007 07:37 PM (k7dkY)
Posted by: Sinistar at February 28, 2007 07:39 PM (oHd6r)
certainly significant . . . anybody see the frontline special,
newswars, fascinating stuff!
Is a 50% change in a IQ of 37 significant? Does the direction matter?
(You will get partial credit for showing your work.)
Posted by: Scott Crawford at February 28, 2007 07:57 PM (Erboo)
VA hospitals have always been notoriously horrible facilities for many, many, many years, but considering that most of the people who work there are government employees, is anyone really all that shocked?
Posted by: wiserbud at February 28, 2007 07:57 PM (56ssE)
Posted by: honest cloud at February 28, 2007 07:58 PM (a6vlD)
Posted by: wiserbud at February 28, 2007 07:59 PM (56ssE)
Walter Reed is an active duty military hospital - not run by the VA. General Kiley's going to get hammered for this.
Posted by: geoff at February 28, 2007 08:03 PM (GJTEc)
Posted by: wiserbud at February 28, 2007 08:11 PM (56ssE)
Posted by: Sinistar at February 28, 2007 08:17 PM (oHd6r)
I'm back in college, so I'm no longer a dropout.
Anyways, I'm taking a class on American Govt., and our textbook declared that the federal govt. in the past few decades has been returning some duties and responsibilities to the state govt.. Yet, for all the talk about a giant, wasteful federal govt., the states are far less efficient in delivering services. They require many more persons to deliver anything near the services the federal govt. delivers, and the American federal government is renowned throughout the world as the most efficient and well-managed national bureaucracy currently in existence.
"Because the incentive in government 'is in the direction of not making mistakes," public employees view risks and rewards very differently (from the private sector) . . . It is key to understand that government cannot be run as a business (as the motive is the public good, and not profits)
Although many Americans bemoan a growing federal bureaucracy . . . Pres. Clinton cut the size of the federal workforce, halved the number of federal regulations, and set customer service standards to direct agencies to put the people first . . . Many politicians, elected officials, and voters complain the fed. bureaucracy is too wasteful . . . few critics discuss the fact that laws and policies also are implemented by state and local bureaucracies whose numbers are proportionately far larger, and often far less efficient, than those working for the fed. govt"
(American Government: Continuity and Change, O'Connor and Sabato pp.314-321).
Posted by: ryan at February 28, 2007 08:39 PM (oektW)
Posted by: Dogstar at February 28, 2007 09:03 PM (dpudc)
Posted by: Nom de Blog at February 28, 2007 09:17 PM (f9DT5)
This was before the huge controversy on Fox News began. He said some very radical things in Lawrence that were way more controversial and incendiary than the whole like-a-Nazi thing.
The anarchists were a bunch of doped up freaks. Orange hair, crystal meth, and not bathing were their badges of honor.
It was a moment of intense disillusionment, I must say!
Posted by: ryan at February 28, 2007 09:34 PM (oektW)
Yeah. You're likely to experience a few of those, I would guess.
Posted by: RDub at March 01, 2007 05:01 AM (U4I5u)
Posted by: Ed Grimley at March 01, 2007 05:05 AM (Ka5Jh)
I'm back in college, so I'm no longer a dropout.
Good on ya, ryan. Now, try not to let those liberal professors warp your mind with all of their insane, left-wing, PC thought-control bullsh....... oh.
Ummm, never mind.
By the way, ALL government is wasteful, by it's very nature. Instead of the dollar going directly to the area where it is needed, if you put that same dollar into government's hands first, only about 15¢ (my estimate, no stats) gets to where it is really needed, with the rest being siphoned off for those all-important "administrative costs."
Posted by: wiserbud at March 01, 2007 05:27 AM (1tlBF)
Ah. The spiritual gift of exhortation. I can see it in you hc.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with but one jihadi headshot. Double tap to the off switch.
Posted by: Dave in Texas at March 01, 2007 05:40 AM (pzen5)
It ain't especially pretty.
I had to have surgury while in the Nav, and it had to be done in a civilian hospital, albeit with a military doctor. He was pretty good. The dentist who took out my wisdom teeth (dropping my Wisdom stat by two, I suppose) however was a worthless hack butcher.
Viva socialized medicine.
Posted by: The Atom Bomb of Loving Kindness at March 01, 2007 08:43 AM (MJbn9)
Skepticism while reading the texts you are assigned by left-wing professors is a very healthy thing!
Also, 'anyways' is not a real word, College Man.
Posted by: Log Cabin at March 01, 2007 08:46 AM (U+rNI)
Newsweek reported that between 500 and 1,000 OEF/OIF veterans are homeless and that "military families are sliding into debt as VA case managers study disability claims over many months, and the seriously wounded require help from outside experts just to understand the VA's arcane system…"
Posted by: Dalton at March 01, 2007 09:11 AM (zkeOi)
Merriam-Webster: any·ways
Pronunciation:
\-ˌwāz\
Function:
adverb
Date:
13th century
1 aarchaic : anywise bdialect : to any degree at all
Posted by: Dalton at March 01, 2007 09:22 AM (zkeOi)
Posted by: geoff at March 01, 2007 10:01 AM (GJTEc)
Posted by: Purple Avenger at March 01, 2007 12:37 PM (dHUp4)
You do know this is old news right? I mean "older than Ace usually puts out" news, over a decade ago there was a movie about how lousy vet hospitals are. It's been a chronic problem for literally centuries.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at March 02, 2007 10:45 AM (wmgz8)
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You should be careful with the "50%" number, because it doesn't include bombing casualties.
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