Today Sec. of State Colin Powell said about the Iraq insurgency, “It’s getting worse.”<\/p>\n
A rare moment of honesty from the Bush Administration. Here’s the numbers they don’t usually enjoy mentioning to the American People…As of 9\/26\/04:<\/p>\n
\nAttacks by Insurgents per day:
\n70-80<\/b> avg.<\/p>\n
U.S. Military Killed in the past Week:
\n15<\/b><\/p>\n
U.S. Military Killed from “Mission Accomplished” through hand-over of “Sovereignty”:
\n1.89 per day<\/b><\/p>\n
U.S. Military Killed from hand-over of “Sovereignty” through Today:
\n2.34 per day<\/b><\/p>\n
Total U.S. Military Killed since hand-over of “Sovereignty” (90 days ago):
\n194<\/b><\/p>\n
Total UK Military Killed since then:
\n6<\/b><\/p>\n
Total U.S. Military Dead since start of War:
\n1,048<\/b><\/p>\n
U.S. Military Amputees, Wounded, Injured & Psychologically Disabled,
\nAll now evacuated from Iraq:
\n27,800<\/b> est.<\/p>\n
Iraqi Civilians Killed since start of War:
\n20,900<\/b> est.<\/p>\n
Iraqi Military Killed (by end of “major hostilities”):
\n28,000<\/b> est.<\/p>\n
Total Iraqis Killed (Civilian and Military):
\n48,900<\/b> est.<\/p>\n
Population of Iraq:
\n25 million<\/b><\/p>\n
Killed in the US on 9\/11:
\n2,973<\/b><\/p>\n
Population of US:
\n293 million<\/b><\/p>\n
Stockpiles of WMD’s found in Iraq so far:
\n0<\/b><\/p>\n
\nSources: Iraq Coalition Casuality Count<\/a>, U.S. Dept. of Defense<\/a>, McLaughlin Group<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today Sec. of State Colin Powell said about the Iraq insurgency, “It’s getting worse.” A rare moment of honesty from the Bush Administration. Here’s the numbers they don’t usually enjoy mentioning to the American People…As of 9\/26\/04: Attacks by Insurgents per day: 70-80 avg. U.S. Military Killed in the past Week: 15 U.S. Military Killed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=622"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}