This morning Joe Scarborough was all giddy touting that George Bush “created 3 million jobs”. This is something I have seen Republicans push for quiet sometime without backing it up with any data. Well that data is really easy to find on the Bureau of Labor Statistics website. First off, here is a nice graph […]
What happened in Iraq last year, and last month particularly, was really good news. We can’t let that over shadow the bad news that has come out of Afghanistan. 2009 was the deadliest year for U.S. forces in the 8+ year war: */ Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov […]
December 2009 was the first month that no U.S. forces were killed in hostile action in Iraq since the war started: */ Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Total 2003 0 0 58 50 8 18 28 16 18 33 69 25 323 2004 39 12 35 126 […]