Posted on 07/14/2008 9:20:35 PM PDT by Southack
A single-digit month.
Looking at the coalition fatalities for the first half of July, 2008 shows something remarkable...something not yet noted by any mainstream news agencies or blogs.
At first glance, the stats show that 6 good Americans gave their lives for our country so far this month in Iraq.
But that number of 6 doesn't tell the tale.
Looking more closely at the numbers, two of our lost soldiers were due to non-hostile work accidents (e.g. one was electrocuted).
But that doesn't mean that we've lost 4 good men to combat this month...you see...two of those lost to combat were killed at the height of the Surge, way back in May of 2007. They are shown in stats for this month because that's when their bodies were recovered.
This means that two of our grave losses were from last year, not this month's combat...and two other losses were due to non-hostile causes.
In other words, for the first half of July, 2008, the U.S. has lost two good men to combat in Iraq.
This is not D-Day 1944. Thousands haven't been lost on a single Normandy beach in minutes.
We've lost two in two weeks to enemy combat.
If the second half of July mimmicks the first, we'll have a single-digit of combat losses in Iraq this month.
This trend is most likely to continue by all indications.
The last that I heard, Jveritas was noting that the jihadi websites are calling for new recruits to go to Afghanistan/Pakistan...and to avoid Iraq.
They’ve conceded the field.
That being said, there are still going to be a few diehards doing very mean, nasty things to civilians and Americans in Iraq...just on a scale far smaller than in the past.
Which is to say, we’ve won Iraq. We know it. They know it.
Amen FRiend. We Won the War in Iraq.
Many US cities lose more than one 20-something per week to violence... and those are CITIES, not nations. Iraq is safer than Detroit.
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