GREAT MOMENTS AT HARVARD: IRAQ IS THE PEACENIKS FAULT
JAMES TARANTO, WALL ST JOURNAL "Researchers at Harvard say that publicly voiced doubts about the
Periods of intense news media coverage in the United States of criticism about the war, or of polling about public opinion on the conflict, are followed by a small but quantifiable increases in the number of attacks on civilians and U.S. forces in Iraq, according to a study by Radha Iyengar, a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in health policy research at Harvard and Jonathan Monten of the Belfer Center at the university's Kennedy School of Government.
The increase in attacks is more pronounced in areas of Iraq that have better access to international news media, the authors conclude . . .
In Iraqi provinces that were broadly comparable in social and economic terms, attacks increased between 7 percent and 10 percent following what the researchers call "high-mention weeks," like the two just before the November 2006 election.
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Let me do my part to help out then: good luck to Iraqi citizens defending their homeland from the illegal U.S. occupiers.
Christ, this really is Vietnam all over again.
Cheney says ,of the four thousand dead U.S. soldiers, "They volounteered". You will note that he didn't . The fact is, these were mostly lower middle class guys who may have volounteered to be part time soldiers, but they did not knowingly agree to be perpetual slaves serving in PNAC's endless resource wars.
Funny. I'd bet insurgents were more emboldened by an unjustified invasion and occupation of their country. Even if they were happy that Saddam was gone, they want US out as quick as possible. George Bush emboldens insurgents.
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