Kos Kook: The Honestly Real and Genuine Story Behind the Falling Casualty Rate

Mon, Nov 5, 2007 at 9:47:04 am PST

The military experts at Daily Kos have figured out why there’s been such a dramatic drop in violence in Iraq, and of course it has nothing to do with the surge or with a change in US tactics: Daily Kos: The Real Story Behind the Falling Casualty Rate in Iraq.

Long story short (these Kos Kook posts are always incredibly wordy): the Mahdi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr has declared a cease-fire. That’s the only reason. Yep.

The Kos Kidz like to call this technique “reframing.”