More bad news for Democrats: U.S. troop deaths show sharp July decline

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BAGHDAD — The number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq has dropped sharply so far in July after reaching record levels in recent months, a possible sign that militants are weakening, the No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Thursday.

"The recent decline in U.S. deaths may result from increased cooperation from Iraqis who report suspected militant activity ..."

"We may be approaching a tipping point in terms of snitching," McBride said. "It can become not only OK to snitch, it can become your duty to snitch."

The death toll has decreased despite " ... an unusually large number of non-combat deaths. Of the 61 deaths reported so far in July, 51 resulted from combat and 10 from non-combat incidents such as vehicle accidents — a rate that could produce about 60 combat deaths by the end of the month.

Click Here For The Article from USA Today.

To put this in perspective for you:

There was 2,503 homicides in California in 2005.

MEANWHILE: U.S. Senator Russ Feingold (Democrat) Speaks From the Senate Floor On the Kerry-Feingold Amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization Bill Setting a Deadline of July 1, 2007 for the Redeployment of U.S. Troops from Iraq:

"This administration and this congress made a mistake by thinking that Iraq was the logical next step in this fight. It is time to reverse course. It is time to redeploy."

Meanwhile, back in Washington, there are 300 investigations in progress launched by the Democrats in the new congress and exactly ZERO indictments or evidence of any wrong doing.

After 7 months they have accomplished this jewel of government management that will affect approximately 4% of the population :

The House approved a measure to increase the minimum wage, the wage increase was approved in the Senate, where it was combined with a bill providing more money for the Iraq war. That vote was 80 to 14.

The measure would raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour from $5.15 in three stages over two years. The bill includes $4.84 billion in tax breaks for small businesses.

President Bush said he would sign the measure as part of the bigger spending package that had been negotiated between Democratic lawmakers and the administration.

After the bill is signed, the wage increase will become the first item of the new Congressional Democrats to become law.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, said the increase was 'overdue'. Yea, I would say so since Clinton only raised it once in his 8 years and didn't increase it after 1997.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “we are raising wages for the hardest-working Americans.” So, unless you work for minimum wage (again - 4% of the population) you are not according to the democrats "the hardest working American".

What say you?

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Mix: 4%
Submitted by dollaradayandfound on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 7:33pm.

Well, if it is only 4% of the workers (not the pay) then what is the possible harm to business? 4%?

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Congress hasn't been doing much
Submitted by teetaw on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 6:25pm.

But it's a hell of a lot better than the Republican puppet Congress green lighting every multi billion dollar Bush project that has been proposed that will waste American tax dollars for a pointless cause. I'm very content with the dem congress blocking the administration's overstepping in terms of its place in the checks and balances system, and cutting off funding until they come clean in terms of what shady dealings they've been doing, and are reigned in from their spending spree.

Keep on reposting those news articles though with the classy headlines though, Democrats really hate it when you reveal their affinity for US troops' death!

Oh, wait, 70.6% of the money donated from the troops is for anti-war candidates, Ron Paul and Democrats! Oh darn. Let that sink in a bit before you mash the post button again to spew more garbage onto the internet about how democrats want our troops to die. Maybe your next post should be about how the troops want the troops to die.

Here are the statistics for those interested, taken from here: http://thespinfactor.com/thetruth/2007/07/17/ron-paul-leads-all-08-candidates-with-one-third-of-military-contributions-for-q2/

Ron Paul 26.23%
Barack Obama 24.02%
John McCain 18.31%
Hillary Clinton 11.08%
Bill Richardson 5.59%
Mitt Romney 4.05%
John Edwards 2.63%
Rudy Giuliani 2.44%
Mike Huckabee 1.84%
Tom Tancredo 1.63%
Duncan Hunter 1.05%
Joe Biden 0.84%
Mike Gravel 0.16%
Sam Brownback 0.07%
Dennis Kucinich 0.05%
Tommy Thompson 0%
Chris Dodd 0%
Jim Gilmore 0%
John Cox 0%

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You say 2/3 of the troops are Republican? Thanks teetee!
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Submitted by Mixer on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 7:38pm.

We all know how that last election went: "In the survey of more than 4,000 full-time and part-time troops, 73% said they would vote for Bush if the election were held today; ... of the respondents, 59% identified themselves as Republicans, 20% as independents and 13% as Democrats."

And things are even better now! I love that you assert that the troops support Republicans over Democrats, Heck, we all know that but hey ....I see your stats:

Your blog (cited as fact) acknowledges that two of the top three (Ron Paul 26.23%, Hussein Obama 24.02%, John McCain 18.31%) are Republican and that's 67%. Look- just those two Republicans have over 45% of the total contributions as well!

You are right about one thing I guess. Two out of every three active duty troops identifies themselves as a Republican.

And then you tell us that you are one of those 14% who thinks congress is doing a good job?

Pelosi sounded more apologetic than celebratory Friday when she announced with her Senate counterpart, Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democrats' list of accomplishments six months after they seized control of Capitol Hill and promised "a new direction" in Washington.

"I'm not happy with Congress, either," Pelosi, of San Francisco, conceded. But I am glad you are "teetaw".

I guess that's why they have the lowest approval rating in history... of course the second lowest was also a Democratically controlled congress as well.

So, will you list the accomplishments of the Democrats in congress for us? Compare that to Newt's "Contract with America" in it's first 200 days will you?

Click Here for the Top 100 Broken Promises of the House Democrats.

What happened to the 'landslide' and 'mandate'? Humm??

Those fiscally tight Democrats are at it again:

Yep, the incoming Democratic majority of Congress promised to restore fiscal responsibility in Washington. Instead of paring back the growth of government, however, Congress came to agreement in conference on a budget resolution that:

* Raises taxes by $721 billion over five years, and a projected $2.7 trillion over 10 years, or more than $2,000 per household;
* Includes 23 reserve funds that could be used to raise taxes by hundreds of billions more;
* Increases discretionary spending by nearly 9 percent in FY 2008 and does not terminate a single wasteful program;
* Completely ignores the impending explosion of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid costs; and
* Creates rules that bias the budget toward tax increases.

For these reasons, the White House, via Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Rob Portman, is right to threaten a veto of any budget bills that hew to Congress's budget resolution.

Gee, I wonder what the next election will look like? Record high stock market, record low unemployment, huge growth in the GNP, and we are winning the war on terror.... gee, I know you hate that. Maybe things will get worse in Iraq and that of course, will help you Democrats.

On a side note:

In just a few months in Washington, the Democratic Congress has tacked $21 billion in unrelated deficit spending onto the Iraq war emergency bill; passed a $7 billion farm bailout—without any offsets—that violates the majority's own pay-as-you-go (PAYGO) rules by adding new mandatory spending;[1] and waived its own PAYGO rules in order to add new mandatory spending as part of a bill to expand the House of Representatives.[2] Coming on the heels of these initiatives, Congress's irresponsible budget resolution is hardly a surprise.
Click here for the article and the cold, hard, facts.

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my point went over your head i think
Submitted by teetaw on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 11:37pm.

yeah, they're republicans, and they're ANTI WAR.

so let the implications of that sink in before you post 3 more pages of crap that I'm not going to read. keep on posting your little blogs too! they're pretty funny how angry you are when no one- not even the troops- want to be in a pointless war no matter what party affiliation they are.

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me thinks you should argue with dollar
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Submitted by Mixer on Mon, 07/30/2007 - 10:06am.

i think you and dollar should argue. he dont read none neither.

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Mixer: army republican?
Submitted by dollaradayandfound on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 7:51pm.

Could we break the army down into enlisted, non-career; enlisted career; and officers?
My experience there indicated to me that officers were mostly republican unlesss their daddy was a democrat. All enlisted didn't give a rat, as a whole. (maybe 10% voted!)
It is probably worse now that we have an "all volunteer army."
Wonder why that would be? Who signs their paychecks?
Enlisted used to be paid cash, I think, Officers, checks.

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But they are forwarding thier agenda
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Submitted by RetiredArmyMAJ on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 5:41pm.

They are smearing the President, the entire administration staff, the AG etc to the delight of the left wing fringe that owns the party.

They hope to help their candidates through smoke and mirrors, while the MSM carries their water. It's not about passing legislation to help Americans, it is all about gaining more power.

Looks like earmarks are alive and well. Meaningless investigations, name calling and personal attacks. They have done nothing positive for 6 years.

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Meaningless investigations, name calling and personal attacks
Submitted by teetaw on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 6:29pm.

hahahahahahahahaha, the republican party sure isn't guilty of any of that now are they? You must not have been reading the headlines about how the administration has been breaking the law left and right and now they are getting caught for it. Meaningless investigations indeed. Your signature is the ironic icing on the cake, "Fighting for truth, justice and the American way, while ignoring the ignorant!"

YOU'RE the ignorant one.

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earmarks = pork
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Submitted by Mixer on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 6:01pm.

But wait.... the democrats promised to stop earmarks. You must be mistaken! Oh, I see here they have actually increased under the democrat controlled congress. You mean.... gulp...they lied to us?

Next you'll try to tell me they have ethics problems ... like William Jefferson and the Louisianan 'cold cash' posse.

Oh my.

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Mix : Earmarks
Submitted by dollaradayandfound on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 7:44pm.

The meaning of political earmarks, I think, means that it is a non-related or unrequested item, added to a bill in congress, where it is allocated to one specific cause in a stated amount.
The reason: why not send it through as a bill by itself? It wouldn't pass, ever. It has a name attached and it is for the members use at home only.
Both parties have horribly abused the privilege.
The next step if it were eliminated by law would be more bargaining than we have now. "I'll vote for your hog pen cleaning bill if you vote for my new road in front of my property."
It is who you send to Washington----not earmarks!!!

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Gee thanks dollar.
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Submitted by Mixer on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 7:46pm.

I had no idea what those were or how they worked. I guess that's why you are a democrat and I am a conservative.

Saved again by the 'dollar'.

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Mix: I know!
Submitted by dollaradayandfound on Sun, 07/29/2007 - 7:55pm.

I have to spend 25% of my time explaining simple well known things to those who have their mind totally closed.

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