.Back from Egypt.
"I'm back in Baghdad now after I spent a week in Cairo attending a seminar for bloggers and civil society activists that was sponsored by the Cato institute, American Islamic Congress and HamsaWeb.The brothers seem to agree with my numbers SD.
It was really an interesting and informative experience to meet and talk to people like Dr. Palmer, Johan, Zainab and Jess and the training designed and supervised by Dr. Shafeeq (head of the American University in Kuwait) were particularly excellent in exploring the potential skills of the participants.
In fact what was even more fun was meeting that little crowd of active middle eastern young men and women as we shared similar goals and discussed similar concerns and tried to work out means of interaction to benefit from the wide variety of kills and experiences we built amid the rough situations in the region to be able to face the threats represented by the totalitarian regimes and extremism which both refuse to hear anything that opposes their backward vision which they seek to impose over the peoples."
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posted by madtom at 2:02 PM
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These numbers
Of course our democratic foundations need a lot of work to meet our aspirations but we are walking this road and none of us is willing to go back and maybe the three thousands that were murdered last month tell that Iraqis are ready to pay the price and fight to preserve and improve our achievements. The magnitude of the change explains the confusion in some of our steps but we have not given up and we're not ready to surrender, not yet.
I think what many are saying is that the influx of more troops into the area has had an effect. No one is saying that this downward trend will continue, but it does look like they are having a positive effect. I think the question is not is can we maintain these levels as they spread out to cover more areas of the capital.
The problem with your urban areas in the US comparison is the numbers. The US has 300 million people and Iraq has 25. If we have the same crime rate it would be like comparing NY to Kansas and claiming that it's not so bad in Kansas, it's no worse than NY.
Col. Robert Scurlock Army 2nd Brigade armored division just said on C-Span that there had been 52 violent incidents per day in the capital. and that that rate had dropped to I think he said 30 something..
That I'm sure is where those numbers were coming from at just two death per incident you can see how fact that would add up.
I hope I spelled the name right so you can look it up.
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