Good news from Iraq is all in how you look at it. A few weeks ago the U.S. military announced a major decline in violent deaths in Baghdad coinciding with joint US-Iraqi troop deployments to many of the cities most troubled neighborhoods. That assertion was challenged just the other day when the Iraqi government and Baghdad morgue suddenly increased the official death toll for August from 550 to 1,536 which is in line with the trend from previous months. When asked about the discrepancy, a US military spokesman admitted the figure only included deaths confirmed to be the result of sectarian-violence. 550 bodies killed execution style make the cut while another 1,000 people killed by un-sectarian violence like car-bombings don't? Better yet, how low do our standards of progress have to go so that 550 tortured bullet-riddled corpses dumped in the street in one month is an improvement?
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