Notice how you guys are trying so hard to be negative...to look at the bad...you guys literally want failure, don't you?
We are being negative because the reality is negative. When you pass 3 of the 18 benchmarks, fail completely on 11 of them thats not a success its a failure. Due to the intense heat in Iraq the summer months tend to be the least deadliest (just look at each and every years summer so far) yet August just generated the 2nd highest civilian death toll of the year. Having among the highest death tolls during a time period which has generally been the lowest because of the intense heat is not a success. We have now seen 12 months in a row with at least 70 American deaths in Iraq. Prior to these past 12 months the most amount of months in a row we have seen with at least 70 American deaths was 3 and that only happened once.
