Phil Gingrey: “Well, again, I thank the gentlewoman from Tennessee. And I would like to reemphasize the statistics that she was talking…”

“Well, again, I thank the gentlewoman from Tennessee. And I would like to reemphasize the statistics that she was talking about that we said at the outset, Mr. Speaker, of this hour that we're going to talk about what a difference that a year makes and present those statistics, how particularly violence has decreased. And Representative Blackburn has already talked about that. But I would ask my colleagues to reference this first slide in regard to its title. This is a little difficult to see in the back of the Chamber, but 'Civilian Deaths.' And it is amazing, if you look at this top line going back to January of 2006 and then coming forward almost to present day, March of 2008, and you see that about the time of the surge, that peaked the civilian deaths. We're talking about on an almost monthly basis, 4,000 civilian deaths. I think if you follow the line down, that would be about January or February of 2007. And in March of 2008, at the far side of the chart, you're looking at a number just slightly over 600. So to go from almost 4,000 deaths to 600.”