This Is What They Call Better
by James Glaser
December 7, 2007

Our elected officials in Washington would like us to believe that things are so much better in Iraq. What was going on a few weeks ago was a horrible blood bath, but today there is still a horrible blood bath going on there, just a little less blood, but horrible all the same.

I am starting with Thursday the 29th of November and going on for seven days, because those are the figures I have.

Thursday	2 Americans killed	30 Iraqis killed	48 Iraqis wounded
Friday	1 American killed	21 Iraqis Killed	9 Iraqis wounded
Saturday	1 American killed	40 Iraqis killed	41 Iraqis wounded
Sunday		53 Iraqis killed	33 Iraqis wounded
Monday		51 Iraqis killed	11 wounded
Tuesday		36 Iraqis killed	51 Iraqis wounded
Wednesday	3 Americans killed	31 Iraqis killed	70 Iraqis wounded

For the week, that totals out to 7 Americans killed, 262 Iraqis killed, and 263 Iraqis wounded. That seems pretty horrible to me. You have to remember that our population is over 300 million, while Iraq's is about 23 million. Iraq's population was way higher before we attacked, but millions have fled the country due to the violence, and for sure tens of thousands, many say hundreds of thousands have been killed.

To have the same impact on our country as it has on Iraq's population, we would have to have 3,144 of our citizens killed in a week. Remember last week according to our politicians was a good week in Iraq.

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