Army General Expects Iraq Deaths to Fall

FORT STEWART, Ga. -- With U.S. deaths in Iraq topping 1,500, the commanding general of allied troops in Baghdad said Thursday he expects casualties will soon decline because of bomb-detecting technology and emboldened Iraqi informants.

"My expectation, not just a hope, is that over the coming months we'll see the number of casualties go down," Maj. Gen. William G. Webster said in a teleconference from Baghdad. "Now, I'm knocking on wood at the same time, because the enemy gets a vote in this."
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"We're training our soldiers every night on what are the latest trends and techniques being used by the enemy so they can find these devices," Webster said. "We're finding 30 to 45 percent of them on a given day."

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-iraq-general,0,4083182.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

Being insurgents, and lacking a device I like to call a "laser beam", they will be unable to adapt to our mighty technology.

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Army General Expects Iraq to Fall to its Death

Which I think is more likely the case.

He's going to have sore knuckles.

shouLdn't he fLy onto an aircraft carrier to decLare it?

is to get our troops out of there since we do not belong ove there to begin with.

...turning the corner....a few dead enders......freedom on the march...only a couple of bad apples...WMDs....yadda,yadda, yadda...

Why would ANYBODY beleive ANYTHING these people say?

piece of absurd rhetoric to me!

Do these people ever stop acting like asshats?

How could anyone, in the middle of a FRICKIN WAR--make the claim that deaths will drop?

Hello? Anyone home?? McFly!! McFly!!

just like his CIC**.

we'll see. It might also have to do with the patrols being changed or cut down.

The only guys over there promo ing this war are the brass..the grunts know its full of shit.

-That's 58 as opposed to 20. And more than twice as many (107) died in Jan this year as in Jan last year (47)

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Though if all the soldiers come home or die, then they will fall. I hate this administrtation and this invasion and the next invasion and the next invasion...

back on patrolling, restrict themselves to their bases, thus becoming less available as targets?

US casualties would go down in that circumstance, without it being a reflection on the strength of the insurgency. Just like casualties in Faluja went down as soon as we stopped attacking it.

At some point we will have to pull back so we can re-group for the attack on Syria.