U.S. troops still taking heat in Iraq

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As Iraq teeters on -- or over -- the brink of civil war the pressure is not easing on the hard-pressed U.S. ground forces there.

Over the past month, the average rate at which U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq has significantly fallen, the but the rates at which they are being wounded have dramatically increased.

U.S. mainstream media reports have focused only on the numbers being killed. But over the past eight months, we have repeatedly emphasized in this column that the far larger numbers of U.S. troops wounded, especially those wounded too seriously to return to active duty, represent a far broader and more statistically significant figure of the scale of insurgent activity and the degree to which it is succeeding or failing to inflict significant casualties on U.S. forces.

The total number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq through Tuesday, March 21 since the start of U.S. operations to topple Saddam Hussein on March 19, 2003, was 2,319, according to official figures issued by the Department of Defense, a rise of 49 in the past 39 days or an average of just over 1.3 killed per day.

The good news is that this is a more than 60 percent improvement on the rate of 3.1 killed per day in early February. And it is a 350 percent improvement on the 33 U.S. soldiers killed in only seven days from Jan. 11 through Jan. 17, an average of 4.7 soldiers killed per day.

The bad news, however, is that in the 39 days from Feb. 11 through March 21, 616 U.S. soldiers were injured in Iraq, an average of 15.8 per day. This was more than twice as bad as the Feb. 4-10 period when 47 U.S. soldiers were injured at an average rate of just under seven per day. And it was also more than 36 percent worse than the rate of the five-day period from Jan. 30 through Feb. 3 when 58 U.S. soldiers were injured, according to the DOD figures, at an average rate of 11.6 per day
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This is terrible news for our troops!!! Damn it!!!

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Seriously, this is a military disaster...our troops are going on 3 or more tours.....the odds of them coming back untouched keep going down.....

The * cabal war plan...utter incompetence!!

without more information. But I'd hazard a guess that, apart from the successful attackers who are too good at it to just stop, the violence and the firepower is shifting away from the US. To kill armored soldiers and vehicles one must raise the explosive power and maybe they figure settling on maiming is better, strategically than the kill ratio. One might think with the "Iraqization" and the supposed airpower shift- which seems very phony at this stage, all attacks would ebb. Instead it looks to be settling down into a civil war scenario added to maintained attacks on the US occupiers.

The Sunnis, to name some, must cripple the US assistance if they are to rise up with their better arms and training against the Shia, so any dunderhead in the pentagon who thinks attacks must diminish has another thing coming. They know the math. pressure to reduce troops and insurgents practicing real troop reduction in the streets.

and the Americans are in the middle of it... kinda like getting in the middle of a fight... you may not get killed but hurt being in the middle...

What a freakin mess!!!

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Takes many more troops and resources to care for a wounded man

Than just to send him home in a "transfer tube"

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Are we suppose to believe that the 'civil war' is suppose to make them immune to the fact nobody in Iraq wants them around and has every right to try to kill them away...it's a battle of liberation, you dumb fuckwad fascists.