COMMENTARY
Fast Facts Not the Story
General George Casey gives a good run down of the "facts" about what is happening in Iraq in this reading on Defend America. It puts a lot of things in its proper prespective. It does show that this "sectarian" violence is not that wide spread.
BAGHDAD, March 27, 2006 — It is easy to rush to judgment, and to failure, about Iraq if you focuson isolated facts and fail to see the whole picture.
Fact: there are car bombs killing scores of civilians in Baghdad.
Fact: terrorists are murdering Iraqis at rates not previously seen. We continue to see the targeting of Iraq's innocent men, women and children, causing a 75 percent increase in the number of civiliancasualties.
These are disturbing facts. Taken in isolation they can paint a distorted picture of what is actually going on in Iraq.
Any loss of life is tragic. However, these incidents need to be placed in perspective to understand what is happening here.
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