{"id":768,"date":"2007-10-23T00:53:40","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T04:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/23\/violence-in-iraq-down-by-70-seventy-percent\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T13:31:01","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T17:31:01","slug":"violence-in-iraq-down-by-70-seventy-percent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=768","title":{"rendered":"Violence in Iraq Down by 70% (Seventy Percent)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, and they ought to know, since the surge was completed in June, violence in Iraq is down a staggering <strong>SEVENTY PERCENT!<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Baghdad, considered the epicenter of the violence because of its mix of Shi&#8217;ites and Sunni Arabs, car bombs had decreased by 67 percent and roadside bombs by 40 percent, he said. There had also been a 28 percent decline in the number of bodies found dumped in the capital&#8217;s streets.<\/p>\n<p>In Anbar, a former insurgent hotbed where Sunni Arab tribes have joined U.S. forces against al Qaeda, there has been an 82 percent drop in violent deaths.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These figures show a gradual improvement in controlling the security situation,&#8221; Khalaf said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSCOL24813120071022?rpc=92&#038;sp=true\">Reuters Story<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonn added:<\/strong><em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudvillegazette.com\/archives\/009568.html\" target=\"_blank\">Greyhawk catches Newsweek<\/a> accusing the Bush Administration of covering up the good news. <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dailymail.com\/donsurber\/2007\/10\/23\/clyburn-was-right\/#more-2078\">Don Surber<\/a> reports Democrat leadership meetings to head off the impending crisis of success in Iraq.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Iraqi Interior Ministry, and they ought to know, since the surge was completed &hellip; <a title=\"Violence in Iraq Down by 70% (Seventy Percent)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=768\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Violence in Iraq Down by 70% (Seventy Percent)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-politics","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}