Someone Alert Rummy & Cheney: The election is over, yet the violence in Iraq continues. I guess al-Qaeda WASN’T trying to influence the election.

November 25, 2006 by mugsy.

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The death toll from a rash of car bombings in Baghdad Thursday continues to rise and now stands at 202. A reprisal attack killed 52 more in Northern Iraq on Friday; 25 men were murdered in an attack on a Mosque as worshipers exited the building, including six Sunni Arabs snatched by Shiite militiamen, doused with kerosene and burned alive while Iraqi soldiers stood by.

Back on October 27th, The Pentagon, and namely Donald Rumsfeld himself, publicly revealed that he believed the sudden record-breaking surge in violence in Iraq was actually the work of al-Qaeda seeking to influence the upcoming U.S. mid-term elections, a view echoed by Vice President Dick Cheney four days later.

October turned out to be the fourth deadliest month for U.S. soldiers since “Mission Accomplished” in mid 2003. And while November’s death toll is mercifully unlikely to exceed October’s record-setting rate, it will still reach the same level or higher as in the previous six months.

But don’t be fooled into thinking that fewer U.S. deaths translates into less violence in Iraq. In October, the civilian death toll hit a record 3,709. November is barely three weeks old, and already is on track to beat that record.

700 MORE Iraqi’s are now killed EACH MONTH than Americans killed on 9/11. Of course, Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, but just try to imagine Americans’ reaction to one “9/11″, “Oklahoma City” and “1906 San Fransisco Earthquake” EVERY MONTH. And if we adjust for population size (Iraq: 25 million vs USA: 300 million), that’s more than 44,000 dead Americans a month.

This “recent” surge in violence that Rummy, Cheney & Bush tried to suggest was merely an attempt to “influence the upcoming midterm elections” began back in April. Maybe someone needs to broadcast on Iraqi TV that the U.S. elections are over and the Democrats won. That’s SURE to quell the violence over there! Someone alert Rummy & Cheney!

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