Posted on 03/30/2006 8:07:36 PM PST by lonestar67
30 U.S. soldiers have been reported killed in March of 2006. This is the second lowest combat death rate since the Iraq war started in 2003. The lowest rate was 19 for February of 2004.
There is one day left in this reporting period.
This may explain why we no longer hear drip drip drip arguments about casualties and an effort to by the media to shift attention away from combat deaths toward an imagined "civil war" wherein supposedly massive numbers of innocent Iraqis die.
The death rate tends to confirm that Iraqi forces are taking the brunt of combat positions designed to constrain and curtail terrorists within their borders. This is an important indicator of successful Iraq policy.
That is my take as well, but it remains to be seen how well we have trained them. I'm concerned that a few years many not be enough time to train good people to take on the roles of leadership. This is very promising news.
That is correct. Our casualties are steadily declining, but the Iraqi Forces' casualties are steadily rising. I have no problem with that, personally. Hopefully they don't either.
Yes, it has to be 'civil war' because we are not the ones losing this war ... so the media has to make it between someone else.
Well, heck, that means it has to force SOMETHING off the front page, right? /sarc
It won't be some immigration issue. The MSM will keep that issue front and center each and every day until the elections.
It is beyond irritating.
About 32,500 Americans commit suicide each year. 1.6MM Americans have served in Iraq at some point.
That means, sadly, that 173 Iraq veterans can be expected to commit suicide each year.
Which means that over the next 25 years we can expect the number of Iraq veteran suicides to reach the number of combat deaths based on purely actuarial expectations.
But I guarantee that we will soon seen an article that will crow about the "epidemic" of veteran suicides with "more than a hundred incidents" etc. in a major publication.
It's just a matter of time.
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