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To: SilentZ who wrote (217268)	2/4/2005 2:25:59 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1575941

I think that we concentrated a lot of resources on a real security effort during the elections, and now that we've relaxed a bit, the attacks have gotten stronger again. I'd bet that if we saw a chart of attacks and deaths by day over the last 12 months, they'd both be going up steadily, then go down for the election, then resume their climb. If they could really have turned it on, there would've been a spike up on the day of the election. At least from what I could cull from the media, that wasn't the case. You might be onto something. Remember, they increased the troops on the ground last fall by 15-20K in anticipation of the election. That might have done the trick. They just announced they are pulling some of them out of Iraq now that the election is over.

To: SilentZ who wrote (217268)	2/4/2005 8:55:43 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575941

Boy, almost 200 posts on this thread since I last signed on... don't have time to read them all so I've only responded to those that are to me. re: If they could really have turned it on, there would've been a spike up on the day of the election. What I read was that the attack incidents spiked from an average of 60 a day to 200 a day on election day. But that they were less effective. What surprised me was that there was a 3 day lull after the election. John