Data Bolsters Notion Of Iraqi Civil War


	Data Bolsters Notion Of Iraqi Civil War

jklugman

8-5-2006 2:42 AM

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cns, deception, conservatives, iraq, civil war, fubar

jklugman says:

ThinkProgress calls Cybercast News Service on their bogus claim that since violence in Iraq is limited to "only" four provinces, there is no civil war.

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        FACT CHECK: Data Bolsters Notion Of Iraqi Civil War              </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/05/iraq-civil-war-2/"><P>Conservative Cybercast News published an article today titled “<A href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT20060804b.html">Data Contradicts Notion of Widespread Iraqi Civil War.</A>” It argues that critics are wrong that Iraq has devolved into a civil war since, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said last week, high levels of violence are concentrated in “<A href="http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200608/NAT20060804b.html">Baghdad and two or three other provinces</A>, and yet in 14 other provinces there’s very little violence or numbers of incidents.” From Cybercast:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://thinkprogress.org/2006/08/05/iraq-civil-war-2/"><P>The <A href="http://www.cnsnews.com/pdf/2006/iraqmap1.pdf">U.S. military figures</A> cited by Cybercast show the four provinces with the highest levels of violence are Baghdad, Al Anbar, Salah ad Din, and Diyala. <U>Those four provinces are precisely where one would expect violence if a Sunni-Shiite civil war were taking place</U>, since they are the provinces where the <A href="http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/iraq_ethno_2003.jpg">vast bulk of Iraq’s Sunnis</A> (who make up just 1/3 of the population) are located.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AE3D8C5D-4F3A-4AA9-9231-5A683AF7A283/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>