But the roadside bombs, and a significant proportion of the suicide bombings aren't terroristic. Terrorism is defined (in US military manuals) as: "the use of force, or the threat of force against civilians for political ends". Attacks on the US military are not terrorism. Attacks against civilians are given far more coverage respective to the number that occur than attacks against military. Thus the fasle presentation
But this is clearly a claim that they are not cheering loud enough. They are portraying the US military as "good guys" defending against all these negative aspects - rather than the negative aspect themselves. The worst the media claims is that the US military is not doing well enough in their "good work" - which is allegedly preventing all these negative images. I said all this in the original post.
More of your Bullchit....:roll:
Lets have a look at attacks against civilian by your friendly insurgents and sects.
The US troops casualites for the same period is 14.
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iCasualties: OIF US Fatalities by month)
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Iraq Coalition Casualties: Iraqi Police and Guardsmen News)
01/12/07 Xinhua: Iraqi police find 37 bodies in Baghdad
Iraqi police said they found 37 unidentified bodies, some of them tortured, in several parts of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
01/11/07 Reuters: Four Oil Ministry officials kidnapped near Nahrawan
Four Oil Ministry officials were kidnapped from a minibus near Nahrawan, just southeast of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
01/10/07 Reuters: Gunmen attack Shi'ite pilgrims - 11 killed, 14 wounded
Gunmen opened fire on two buses of Shi'ite pilgrims returning across the desert through the Nukhaib area in Sunni-dominated Anbar province from the haj at Mecca in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, killing 11 and wounding 14, officials in Kerbala...
01/10/07 Reuters: 60 Bodies found in Baghdad
Police recovered the bodies of 60 people with gunshot wounds and signs of torture from various parts of Baghdad in the 24 hours to Wednesday evening, an Interior Ministry source said.
01/10/07 Reuters: Eight bodies found in Mosul
Police found the bodies of eight people from different districts of Mosul 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.
01/10/07 Reuters: Mortar fire wounds 3 students in Mosul
Three mortar rounds landed near a girls' high school, wounding three pupils as well as two women and three children in nearby houses in the northern city of Mosul, police said.
01/10/07 AP: Two workers shot dead while fixing a water pipe
Just south of Baghdad, gunmen shot dead two workers fixing a water pipe damaged by saboteurs a month earlier, a police colonel said. The workers were killed Tuesday in Madain...and their bodies were removed from the scene on Wednesday.
01/10/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 3 in Kirkuk
A roadside bomb exploded near a car carrying the son of a police colonel, wounding him and two others in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
01/10/07 AP: Bombs kill 2 in Mahmoudiya
Also Wednesday, two bombs exploded almost simultaneously near a gas station in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, killing two civilians and setting several cars on fire, police said.
01/10/07 BBC: Tortured bodies found on the outskirts of Qaim and Mahawil
Four tortured bodies were found on the outskirts of Qaim, 160km (100 miles) from the Syrian border. Other bodies were discovered in Mahawil Mosul and Iskandariya.
01/10/07 AP: Suicide bomber kills four civilians in Tal Afar
A suicide bomber killed four civilians in a crowd outside a police station Wednesday in the northern Iraqi city Tal Afar, police said. At least 12 people were also injured by the blast when the bomber walked into a crowd of people gathering outside...
01/09/07 Reuters: Gunmen kidnapped head of the customs department
Gunmen kidnapped Abdul Ghafour al-Jouburi, head of the customs department in northern Iraq, police said.
01/09/07 Reuters: Three mortar rounds hit house in Mahmudiya
Three mortar rounds landed on a house in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding three from the same family, police said.
01/09/07 Reuters: Forty bodies found in Baghdad
Police found 40 bodies in various parts of Baghdad in the past day, an interior ministry source said.
01/09/07 Reuters: Six bodies found in Mosul
Police found six bodies, including one woman, in the northern city of Mosul, police said.
01/08/07 Reuters: 25 bodies found in Baghdad, 5 in Mosul
Police recovered 25 bodies, mostly of tortured death squad victims, around Baghdad in the 24 hours to Monday evening...Five unidentified bodies were found in different parts of the northern city of Mosul, police and hospital sources said.
01/08/07 Reuters: Two civilians killed by roadside bomb in Baghdad
Two civilians were killed and five wounded when a roadside bomb targeted a convoy of official vehicles in southeastern Baghdad, the Interior Ministry source said.
01/08/07 Reuters: Civilian killed in crossfire between gunmen and Iraqi army forces
Clashes erupted between gunmen and Iraqi army forces in the capital's Sulaikh district, killing one civilian and wounding two others, the Interior Ministry source said.
01/08/07 Reuters: Mortar fire kills two in Baghdad's Amel district
Several mortar rounds hit a residential area in the Amel district of western Baghdad, killing two civilians and wounding four others, an Interior Ministry source said.
01/08/07 Reuters: 15 killed in Baghdad bomb (video)
A roadside bomb killed three civilians in the southeast of Baghdad, while in the west of the city, gunmen ambushed a bus, killing 15. Iraq's Health Ministry now believes at least 23,000 civilians and police were killed in 2006.
01/08/07 Reuters: Gunmen kill six members of a Shi'ite family
Gunmen killed six members of a Shi'ite family while they were packing their furniture to move from their neighbourhood in Doura district in southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
01/08/07 Reuters: Iraqi troops kill 26 insurgents
Iraqi army troops killed 26 insurgents and wounded 43 others during the past 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.
01/08/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills policeman in Baghdad
A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded two, including a civilian, police said.
01/08/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb wounds 3 pilgrims in southeastern Baghdad
A roadside bomb exploded near a bus carrying pilgrims and wounded three of them in southeastern Baghdad, police said.
01/08/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 2 people in Baghdad'a Zaafaraniya district
BAGHDAD - A bomb planted under a car killed two people and wounded two others in the southern Zaafaraniya district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
01/08/07 Reuters: Gunmen kidnap senior tribal chief in Salahaddin province
Gunmen kidnapped a senior tribal chief in Salahaddin province named Naji Hussein Jubara, seizing him from his car on the road north of Samarra, police said. Jubara is the brother of the deputy governor of the province.
01/08/07 Reuters: Gunmen ambush bus in Baghdad
Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying workers to Baghdad airport on Monday, underlining the challenge facing the U.S.-backed government in implementing a new security plan aimed at stemming sectarian bloodshed in the capital.
01/07/07 WaPo: War's Toll on Iraqis Put at 22,950 in '06
More than 17,000 Iraqi civilians and police officers died violently in the latter half of 2006, according to Iraqi Health Ministry statistics, a sharp increase that coincided with rising sectarian strife since the February bombing...
01/07/07 Reuters: Four bodies found in Suwayra
Police found four bodies, including one that had been decapitated, in Suwayra, about 45 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.
01/07/07 KUNA: Five bodies found in Mosul
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Police found five unidentified corpses in separate parts of Mosul. The bodies were shot several times in the head and chest, said a police source.
01/07/07 Reuters: Education Ministry official attacked, two guads killed
Habib al-Shimiri, a senior Education Ministry official, survived a roadside bomb attack on his car near the al-Shaab football stadium in east central Baghdad, but two of his guards were killed, police said.
01/07/07 Reuters: Car bomb kills 2 in Hilla
A car bomb in a market in the town of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, killed two people and wounded 11, police and Interior Ministry sources said, adding that the death toll could climb.
01/07/07 AP: Attackers shot dead Defense Ministry employee
Attackers shot dead a Defense Ministry employee on his way to work south of Baghdad, and a provincial councilman was injured in an assassination attempt in Hillah.
01/07/07 AP: Gunmen kill a Shiite cleric and his son in Mahaweel
In Mahaweel, about 35 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen killed a Shiite cleric and his son as they were heading to a nearby Shiite shrine, police said.
01/07/07 AP: Gunmen kill three in marketplace in southwestern Baghdad
Gunmen drove through a marketplace in southwestern Baghdad, spraying bullets into food and clothing stalls and killing three Sunni Muslim shopkeepers, a police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
01/07/07 AP: Mortar rounds kill 4 in central Baghdad
A barrage of mortars killed four civilians and wounded five others in central Baghdad after a roadside bomb missed an Iraqi police patrol and killed two pedestrians, police said.
01/07/07 Reuters: Two bodies found in Mosul
The bodies of two people were found shot dead in the outskirts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a witness said.
01/07/07 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills 2 people in Baghdad
A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded two in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
01/07/07 Reuters: Police kill one person during demonstration in Samarra
Police commandos killed one person during a demonstration in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, denouncing Saddam Hussein's execution, police said.
01/07/07 Reuters: Gunmen attacked worshippers in Tuz Khurmato
Gunmen attacked worshippers coming out of a mosque and wounded four of them on Saturday in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 70 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
01/07/07 Reuters: Headless body on Saturday in Riyadh
Police found a headless body on Saturday in the town of Riyadh, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.