[SandRat]

Professional Reading on the Sunni Insurgency

[Marine_Uncle]

Thanks. Think I will take time to read it in full.

[vbmoneyspender]

American KIA rates have been fairly steady during the insurgency, averaging 49/month in 2003 and 71/month in both 2004 and 2005, for an average of 65 KIA/month since the fall of Baghdad.

I think their numbers on American KIA rates are misleading. There has been a measurable decline in KIA rates since 2005. And I believe that in the last three months our KIA rates have dipped even further.

[vbmoneyspender]

military fatality rates were 2.92 per day for 2004, 2.32 per day for 2005 and 2.00 per day for 2006.

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[PajamaTruthMafia]

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[vbmoneyspender]

Also, their contention that KIA rates have averaged 65 a month since the fall of Baghdad (i.e. May 1, 2003) does not jibe with the following part of their article:

According to U.S. government reporting, from the end of major combat operations (1 May 2003) to 1 February 2006, 1,665 U.S. troops had been killed in action, and 16,111 wounded in action in Iraq, for a total of 17,776 combat casualties, which represents nearly 50 killed and 500 wounded per month