lying sack of shit.
"down?" from what? nobody died in the last hour, and somebody died an hour ago?
http://icasualties.org/oif/The fist 12 days of July are "only" 2.9/day - at the moment. Give us a day tomorrow like last Friday, with nine, or last Thursday, with seven, and watch THAT trend change. Nine tomorrow would bump it to 3.4. Seven the next day would make it 3.64.
This chart is American only, but the UK and other numbers in icasualties above don't change the trends:
Look at the numbers for July '05, July '06, and the June-July period of '04. Do those dips indicate "casualties were down?" (Ok, the lying shits probably tried to claim it then too). Look what happened each year after the July "dip." Note: I am not claiming that a July dip is a reliable phenomenon, just pointing out previous periods when the totals dropped for a long enough period to be discernable. It is probably coincidence that it was July three years running and it is - gee - JULY now.
There is a patttern of a dip in the feb-mar timeframe as well. And sure enough, we had one this year. It dropped to "only" DOUBLE the previous March! And the lying stupid sacks of shit in the media called it a drop in casualties - from December - the third highest month ever.
You cannot extrapolate short-term perturbations in the numbers into anything meaningful. At this minute, this month projects to be less than the last three (which were the highest 3-month total ever) but higher than the prior three. In fact, higher than all but nine of the 53 months since this nightmare started. It may actually end up being a "down" month. But for that slime to toss off a comment like that, with the clear intent of misleading and driving a fucking agenda to keep the senseless killing going indefinitely based on fucking NOTHING - that we had five days in a row with a total of five deaths reported so far, makes me apoplectic.
There are many, many things to get incensed over, and many are worse than this little bit of lying propaganda. But it is representative of that fucking dismissive "they are just numbers" attitude.
Tell these kid's parents "casualties are down," snow, you bastard.