Analysis of US Casualties in Iraq by Week and Month - post Baghdad Liberation Day

CENTCOM ^ | August 8, 2003

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

The rest of the story:

 

Iraq is about the size of California.

 

Iraq has a population of over 24 million. Baghdad, a population of over 5 million.

 

We have over 150,000 U.S. troops stationed in and around Iraq.

 

Saddam - and other enemies of America - poured weapons into Iraq before the war - filling schools and warehouses and hospitals across the country - within easy reach of even the children. The vast majority of Iraqi people chose not to fight.

 

A small percentage of Saddam loyalists and terrorist wannabes remain - tens of thousands of some of the nastiest low-lifes in history. They have no future in Iraq.

 

OUR press and policiticians give these bad guys false hope daily - every time they hype casualties and ignore the successes of our troops.

 

The troops KNOW why they are in Iraq. They aren't risking their lives because of 16 words or 28 pages or because we bombed a Sudan aspirin factory following Monica's grand jury testimony - after a decade of ignoring terrorist attacks on US citizens  - and incited the Taliban jihad against America.

 

When OUR press and politicians exaggerate the dwindling enemy's strength and call four months + of outstanding work in Iraq a 'failure of the peace', THEY - and not the troops, the military leaders or the President - threaten the peace.

 

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CENTCOM, the primary news source on Iraq,  releases more than casualty counts daily. 

 

They release detailed humanitarian and security logs - the day's good works of the troops across Iraq - reports on each major operation, transcripts of the informative briefings from commanders on the ground, bad guys captured - over 45 reports detailing Coalition progress each month.

 

8  What OUR guys did to the bad guys and for the longsuffering Iraqi people during the months of: April,

May, June, July.

 

During the 16 weeks following Baghdad Liberation Day: April 10 - August 7:  111 soldiers died (54 due to hostile action), roughly 271 soldiers were wounded serving their country in Iraq.

 

During the weeks following Baghdad Liberation Day: April 10 - today: 146,000 - 150,000 U.S. troops responded, as always, with focus, determination, and honor - on behalf of their comrades and country.

 

Quagmire, guerilla warfare, mass US casualties?  No.

 

Not now, not yesterday....in spite of the deliberate efforts of the press, the UN, international socialist NGOs and the Democratic Party of America to undermine the President, the troops, the country, and the will of the people by misrepresenting the situation on the ground to the watching world daily for four short months and  20 days (since the beginning of the war on March 19) - and counting.

 

 

8 Last week in Iraq - a recap of our military's outstanding security efforts 

 

8 Unapologetically Pro-Coalition News Links 7

[steplock]

"Analysis of US Casualties" ???

Damned PC military now. We have to 'analyze' this?

[JohnGalt]

Any idea if Centcom has released figures on the number of female soldiers being sent home from Iraq because they got pregnant?

This was a major scandal in Kosovo but I have not seen any numbers on the current campaign. I read some anecdotes from solidiers in the Middle East who said it was a problem, but I have seen no hard numbers reported anywhere.

[Frank_Discussion]

Analysis is a mainstay of military operations, and has been so for a very long time. This is not a new thing, so lighten up.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Facts are stubborn things. Our troops are doing an amazing job in Iraq with very few casualties. The numbers prove this. I dare anyone who has a problem looking straight at these numbers - through the daily left-wing press smoke and mirrors - to read the over 120 detailed progress reports linked above and to look at the size of our force, the size of the country, the history of Saddam's brutality, the nature of our enemy.

Read up on the operations - dozens of aggressive raids taking in thousands of bad guys, millions of bad guy $$$, mountains of bad guy weapons - and rarely a US casualty.

Look at the big picture. Read what our troops have DONE in Iraq. Read the quotes from the Iraqi people. Read e-mail from the troops, and listen to the military leaders.

This war is not and has never been a quagmire. On the contrary, what they've done in this short time is a miracle, imho.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

I finally put it together, the casualties per week and month. It is not exact, the operational details are not complete in the CENTCOM reports - a few casualties (rock through a windshield nicking a troop) are in the Coalition security reports and not individual casualty headlines. I guarantee they are near accurate and certainly accurate for the purposes of explaining to others that during our worst month we lost only 39 troops out of 150,000 across Iraq - and that was the revenge of the Ba'athists following the death of the Hussein boys, and includes 11 non-hostile, and one cowardly grenade attack on our troops at the Children's hospital.

If you want on or off my pro-Coalition ping list, please ping.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the ping Ragtime Cowgirl.

[Howlin]

Thank you......thank you!

[Howlin]

FYI.

[nana4bush]

Thank you for your efforts in bringing this information to us so we don't have to rely on the filtered press reports.

I also see a number of "died in sleep, seizure, accidental fall, heart attack, etc. deaths. Do we know if the stress of heat and conditions of Iraq have made these incidents of non-combat deaths higher in Iraq than in other conflicts?

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

PING

Ragtime Cowgirl : Great Job in putting things in perpespective.
AND for reminding us the real cost of Freedom.



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[facedown]

Great job as always. You and our troops.

[Coop]

A "freedom isn't free" bump.

[mystery-ak]

Thanks for the ping....Mike(hubby) asks all the time if they have released the Iraqi casualty reports....he swears they are very high....

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

My pleasure.

Thunderstorms are approaching here - I have to go. Please feel free to add the names of anti-warmongers and deceivers to the Keywords list.

Thank you!

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks for putting this together.

Sorry we had to lose the 39, but it's war.

Tonkin thanks for the ping.

[SouthernHawk]

Each and every lost military member is precious to us. We pray for them and their families. Thank GOD for our Military and may he shield/protect all of them still in harm's way!

Thanks for the ping Tonkin!

[Congressman Billybob]

I have been trying to find accurate casualty rates for the American occupation of Germany in 1945-46, to put those side by side with the current history in Iraq. I already know that the population of the part of Germany that the US occupied, was about the same as all of Iraq today. The number of occupying Americans is about the same.

I've read the casualty history for the VIIth Corp (Patton's unit) which was disbanded in October, 1945. From those detailed reports on a limited part of the occupation of Germany, it looks like American casualties (both killed and wounded), plus acts of sabotage, plus attacks on German "collaborators" were all about the equivalent of Iraq, today.

Do you have the smarts and the computer skills to get the whole information from Germany in 1945-46, to put that side by side with Iraq, today? Since Germany was an obvious success then and no one used the words "quagmire" or "failure" then, the comparison would put the lie to much of the press and Democrat rhetoric today.

This was also the subject of my last column, posted on FreeRepublic, link below. I look forward to your reaction.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, now up FR, "Sixteen Little Words."

[Howlin]

Reference ping!

[Joe Brower]

Wow. Truly a labor of love on your part, and truly sobering. God bless you for taking the time and effort to do this.