Editor, Daily News:
Letter-writer Georgine Hill Mendino painted an incredibly rosy picture of the situation in Iraq, and reader John Fahr asked why the Daily News fails to publish regularly all the many "good things" happening regularly in the Iraq/Iran area.
According to an International Republican Institute poll conducted in late March, more than 75 percent of Iraqis consider the security environment to be poor and the economy poor or mediocre. That the situation in Iraq has seriously deteriorated in recent years is clearly borne out by a recent report in The New York Times compiled by researchers at the Brookings Institution.
Between May 2003 and May 2006, Iraqi civilian deaths per month jumped from 250 to 1,500; monthly American troop fatalities increased from 37 to 68; Iraqi army and police fatalities per month rose from 10 to 149; the estimated number of insurgents increased from 3,000 to 20,000; daily attacks by insurgents rose from five to 90; and monthly incidents of sectarian violence increased from five to 250.
The number of Iraqis optimistic about the future declined from 75 percent to 30 percent. Instead of publishing "good news," please warn your readers that the light at the end of the Iraqi tunnel is a speeding train coming our way.
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