Has the violence slowed in Iraq?

[diplomats]

There've been no deaths for several days now. Are the attacks decreasing?

[Cush]

1. nope

just in a decrease in the reporting

[diplomats]

2. To coincide with Bush's vacation

eom

[BackDoorMan]

5. Exactlly the way Rove wants it and the Big 5 obey...

How are we going to overcome the Big 5 in 2004?

[Composed Thinker]

6. How do you know?

[imax2268]

3. it does seem rather quiet...

but for how long...

Is it that they who are attacking our troops laying low right now and planning something big...?

Or has the American media been silenced by higher powers...?

Only time will tell...

[Nevernose]

4. Closer attention is needed

The attacks have not dimiminished, just fatalities. Several American servicemen have been wounded; they were lucky not to get killed. I'll see if I can't dig up some links -- this was mentioned on CNN this morning.

Wounded people don't play as well on TV as dead people, though.

Oh, and if the attacks ARE dropping off, I'll be happy, regardless of what it does to Bush's poll numbers.

[hang a left]

7. It is just too ironic

that there have been no deaths reported in recent days, when there were what 11 the week before. I think the media is being silenced.

[nolabels]

8. Who's asking anyway?

I have been away from the internet for 4 days, but looking at this report it does not sound like it

http://www.antiwar.com/
http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20030804-121425-6485r.htm
(snip)
War casualties overflow Walter Reed hospital


By Jon Ward
THE WASHINGTON TIMES



Officials at Walter Reed Army Medical Center are referring some outpatients to nearby hotels because casualties from operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have overloaded the hospital's convalescence facility.
"We have an informal agreement with any number of hotels in the area. If we come to this point, they will take for us," said Walter Reed spokesman Jim Stueve. "They're very supportive and cooperative when we need that assistance."
Mr. Stueve could not specify how many soldiers are in hotels, but said Walter Reed is referring about 20 patients or their relatives to hotels each day. Hotels in Silver Spring, just across the D.C. line, offer discounted rates for outpatients and their families, and the military pays the bill.
However, the hotel arrangement has not compromised the quality of care for incoming wounded, Mr. Stueve said.
"The staff is highly motivated to get these troops mended and on their way," he said.

(snip)

[Redleg]

9. Some deaths are covered-up as "non-combat related"

and the many wounded soldiers are not being reported about much at all.