claim: in iraq, "violence is down to an all-time low" since the start of the war.
author: joe biden
evidence_1: dec 22, 2014 ... the small picture is very bad, but the big picture of violence around the world is about as good as it's ever been. photo by gokhan ..... the worldwide rate of battle deaths (available through 2013) has also risen since its low point in 2005, mostly because of the deaths in the syrian civil war. 141209_charts- ...
evidence_2: dec 7, 2011 ... but joshua goldstein argues that despite iraq and afghanistan, congo and sudan, the past 10 years have seen fewer war deaths than any decade in the ... others include the plummeting of rates of interpersonal violence, one-on-one homicides, which have fallen by about a factor of 35 since the middle ...
evidence_3: mar 17, 2006 ... [cnn, 10/23/2006]. october 24, 2006: 19 percent of americans believe the united states is winning the war in iraq, an all-time low. [usa today, 10/24/2006]. october 30, 2006: october is the fourth deadliest month for american troops since the war began. “the u.s. military announced the death of the ...
evidence_4: the absolute number of war deaths is declining since 1945. the absolute number of war deaths has been declining since 1946. in some years in the early post-war era, around half a million people died in wars; in contrast, in 2007 (the last year for which i have data) the number of all war deaths was down to 22.139.
evidence_5: the iraq war was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of iraq by a united states-led coalition that overthrew the government of saddam hussein. the conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion iraqi government.