While the House Judiciary Committee hearings are in recess, take a look at this great post from Ilan Goldenberg at Democracy Arsenal. Goldenberg combs through the just-released quarterly Pentagon report (pdf) and compares its civilian-casualty numbers (pdf) to those presented last week to Congress by General David Petraeus (also pdf). And sure enough, it appears that the quarterly report’s numbers — which were taken from Multinational Corps-Iraq, the command just under Petraeus’ — make the pre-surge period seem better than Petraeus’ numbers; and the surge period seem worse.Goldenberg writes:
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=179848