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| US Fatalities in Iraq down in July |
| 2005-07-31 |
| fewer than June or May but still about 50 in the month Period US UK Other* Total Avg Days 7-2005 47 3 1 51 1.65 31 6-2005 78 1 4 83 2.77 30 5-2005 80 2 6 88 2.84 31 4-2005 52 0 0 52 1.73 30 3-2005 36 1 3 40 1.29 31 2-2005 58 0 2 60 2.14 28 1-2005 107 10 10 127 4.1 31 |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #10 the link should have been http://icasualties.org/oif/ sorry about that |
| Posted by: mhw 2005-07-31 15:36 |
| #9 The statistics are meaningless unless put into the context of political events in Iraq and elsewhere. And into the context of major operations conducted by Coalition and Iraqi troops. The number of fatalities was high in January because that's when the first round of elections occurred. They went quiet for 2 months while the jihadis and Ba'athists regrouped and watched to see what would result. As the Sunni and Shia failed to instantly create a dialogue with maturity and stability - no real surprise - two things happened. First, some Sunni got drawn into the political process thereby panicking the insurgents into attacking harder. And second, the Shia began their own backalley operations. This will be a long slog, but progress is being made. |
| Posted by: too true 2005-07-31 11:31 |
| #8 Statistics and lies. Its a bit early to say much from these figures. If you take out the Jan/2005, it does not look so good. Still we all hope for the best that the figure are down. |
| Posted by: bernardz 2005-07-31 11:10 |
| #7 Here's another headline - Coalition Casualty Rate Cut 40% in July Same numbers, different spin. Although actually the casualty rate and death rate are not the same, but I'll clarify that in the last paragraph. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-07-31 09:09 |
| #6 OMG a 200% increase in UK casualties from June to July. Where's the Guardian declaring defeat? Headlines "Run Tony Run!" |
| Posted by: Speretch Thromomp3699 2005-07-31 08:52 |
| #5 They're (the insurgents)regrouping and restocking for the constitution vote terror!! Voting is the root cause of terrorism. Slaps his head. Of Course! Actually the violence will be mostly (anti-vote) Sunni on (pro-vote)Sunni and some of us of here would encourage them to rearm for that. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-07-31 04:45 |
| #4 They're (the insurgents)regrouping and restocking for the constitution vote terror!! The US should spike up to the 150,000 during this period. |
| Posted by: smn 2005-07-31 04:10 |
| #3 Lol, Jackal! Triumph of The Math Challenged. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-07-31 01:31 |
| #2 The way the MSM would report it: Cumulative casualities in Iraq at an all-time high. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-07-31 01:14 |
| #1 Bad link, mhw. |
| Posted by: GK 2005-07-31 00:49 |