10th
September
2007
The surge - doth it work?
posted by saurabh in Graphs, War!, Yarrr! |“I’ve committed more than 20,000 additional American troops to Iraq.” — George W. Bush, January 10, 2007.
Statistical argument is the worst kind of argument.
Data courtesy of Iraq Coalition Casualties.
UPDATE: Self-correcting?
Data courtesy of Iraq Body Count.
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self-correcting — that’s what people seem to be saying. very intense cleansing of neighborhoods, heavy displacement, after the samarra mosque bombing. now “largely done”.
Hmmm - you posit “less violence because of ethnic transfer”? I’m more likely to blame unreliable data collection methods.
yeah yeah. all stats dubious. but, many stories say baghdad’s more shi’a now than it used to be sunni, with little mixing. i don’t get the feeling there’s much desire to have prolonged fighting — “keep away” sounds more like the overall idea — but terrible things are still the norm.
i must have really been impressed with these charts… i made them into a nightmare…