The most important trend in American Politics.

[benburch]

The trend of the number of deaths of US soldiers per month is POSITIVE. This makes a lie out of any GOP Crime Syndicate claims of "Progress".

[benburch]

1. Kick!

:kick:

[Binka]

2. K & R

What heartbreak. What a mother fucking waste of lives. All round.

[benburch]

3. Amen.

And getting worse by the day, not better.

[jasmeel]

4. Someone alert the media---seriously!!n/t

[tridim]

5. But that's not how BushCo measures progress

Death means nothing to them, only cash, and there's plenty to go around.

[FiveGoodMen]

6. Not just BushCo, but 50 million god-damned voters!

[Initech]

8. Dont forget the "good" news coming out of Iraq!

Oh wait, the reason the M$M isnt reporting the good news coming out of Iraq is because there isnt any!

[AAARRRGGGHHH]

7. Not at all to defend *

But this graph is pretty misleading. The r-squared component of that trend line looks remarkably low (about 8% if my calculations are correct).

You can flame if you want, but this upward "trend" doesn't appear to be much of a trend at all.

[RobertSeattle]

9. I concur - there's no real trend there

For figures from March 03 to May 06 is an R2 of around .06 - that't doesn't indiciate much of a trend.

[peabody71]

10. a regretful kick.

[EVDebs]

11. Emergency funding bills and 'how much longer can this go on ?'

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2339776&mesg_id=2340051

As with Vietnam, the R's will demand a 'decent interval' but the funding will have to be cut. Permanent base funding needs to go first, since this is a major rationale for the insurgency to continue.