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2007-04-01 Iraq

U.S. March Toll Nearly Twice Iraq Forces

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Posted by Dave D. 2007-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Farewell Marine

During the past month, the US has lost more military soldiers in Iraq than the Iraqi military. Terrorists know that they have defeated the party in majority control of the US Congress. They know that the battle should not center on Baghdad but must be taken to our troops as they now know our politicians are on the run.

This disgracefull cowardice by the Democratic Party is costing the lives of greater and nobler men and women who are on the front lines of the WOT.

The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sergeant Major Joseph J. Ellis, 40, of Ashland, Ohio, died February 7, 2007, while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar province, Iraq. Ellis was assigned to Battalion Landing Team 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), I Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Pendleton, California.

The military told Traci and Rachael Ellis that he was doing a routine checkpoint search when he approached a suspicious man who detonated a suicide bomb, killing him and injuring another Marine.

In reality, the 23 year veteran placed himself between the suicide bomber and his fellow marines...

The President of the United States now seems more interested in gaining support and sweet talking to the coward Democratic Congress than standing up to them for our people on the front lines.

Posted by Sheba Angaish9336 2007-04-01 00:32|| 2007-04-01 00:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Damnit. I was working under mistaken impression that casualties were down. It didn't make sense with the new up-tempo, but I was hopeful. Damnit.

Posted by Shipman">Shipman 2007-04-01 06:43|| 2007-04-01 06:43|| Front Page Top

#3 "mistaken impression that casualties were down"

I would still have expected a lot higher casualties based on so many additional US troops going outside the wire on a daily basis. Including troops that have been there a while and are not numerically part of the surge per say. I believe the long term average casualty rate has been about 60/month. 81 for March is above that, but on a per capita outside-the-wire basis the individual risk must indeed be coming down.

Posted by Phusorong Panda3347 2007-04-01 08:34|| 2007-04-01 08:34|| Front Page Top

#4 You know what? I'm beginning to think it doesn't matter whether the "surge" succeeds or not: even if it does, the MSM will spin it as a failure. They WILL find an angle.

cira the 1960-70 the elite media Corps. re-wrote Vietnam history, please remind the younguns they are seeing a very similar process. The difference is that now we....

...well I've said it to many times already.

Posted by RD 2007-04-01 08:36|| 2007-04-01 08:36|| Front Page Top

#5 Do you really trust MSM to actually have gone out to count the number of Iraqi casualties across the country? I have bridge to sell you.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-04-01 09:04|| 2007-04-01 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 AP = All Propaganda

Posted by RWV 2007-04-01 11:56|| 2007-04-01 11:56|| Front Page Top

#7 I just read a really depressing piece at Powerline in which a soldier spoke not only about the utter crap that is the Maliki government and how they are infiltrated/actively support the Iranian-backed militias, but how our own military is incredibly inflexible and beauracratic with utterly idiotic ROE. This guy was not optomistic.

Posted by Remoteman 2007-04-01 12:37|| 2007-04-01 12:37|| Front Page Top

#8 Some of today's and yesterday's titles on Irak (q)

04/01/07 ireland.com: Two killed in Mosul bomb attacks
04/01/07 KUNA: Violence overwhelms Mosul cityoutbreak of clashes in several parts of the city, a security source said.
04/01/07 thisisleicestershire:British soldier wounded in Iraq
04/01/07 Reuters: 2 truck bombs wound 15 at Iraq army base
04/01/07 AP: Two suicide vests found unexploded in heavily fortified Green Zone
04/01/07 LATImes: Five killed in hospital blast in Baghdad
04/01/07 KUNA: Two leading Iraqi figures survive bid on their lives near Baghdad
04/01/07 Reuters: Iraq second most dangerous place in the world for minorities
03/31/07 AP: U.S. March toll nearly twice Iraq forces
03/31/07 NPR: Aid Groups See Declining Living Conditions in Iraq
03/31/07 Reuters: car bombs kill 4 in Hilla, 2 in Tuz Khurmato
03/31/07 Reuters: Car bomb wounds 6 in Mosul
03/31/07 Reuters: 5 bodies found in near Suwayra, 13 found in Baghdad
03/31/07 Reuters: Four Sunnis killed in Tal Afar
03/31/07 Reuters: Mortar fire wounds 3 in Husseiniyah
03/31/07 Reuters; Iraqi Tal Afar bomb killed 152, deadliest of war
03/31/07 VOA: Car Bombings in Iraq Kill 11
03/31/07 IWPR : Victims pile up at Mosul city morgue
03/31/07 MNF: Coalition Forces captured 16 suspected terrorists

My point? None.

Or all the above.

Posted by SwissTex 2007-04-01 13:25|| 2007-04-01 13:25|| Front Page Top

#9 If monthly US casualties have been running at 60/month and now we suffered 81, then the news is that Iraqi security force casualties are DOWN by a significant margin.

Iraqi Army and Police usually have twice as many casualties as the US. If the ratio is reversed then their causalties must be about 1/3 what they were before.

Of course, don't expect the MSM to tell you that.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2007-04-01 13:51|| 2007-04-01 13:51|| Front Page Top

#10 From the misleading article, US casualties were about 80 for the last three months. NO CHANGE even with up-tempo ops for the surge.

Notice that it is also correct to say US casualties were roughly half that of the Iraqi police, although that lacks quagmirism. Rather than using the word 'spin', I'll just call the AP a sack of lying bastards.

Posted by SteveS 2007-04-01 16:14|| 2007-04-01 16:14|| Front Page Top

#11 US March toll may be twice Iraqi ARMY losses, but Iraqi Police are pulling a lot more weight than in the past, and are paying for it with losses roughly double the US. I don't know what the AIF toll is running. Iraqi civilian losses are about flat pre/post 'surge', concentrated in a few big bombings of soft targets, though seemingly with fewer 'reprisal' executions than in the past.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2007-04-01 17:22|| 2007-04-01 17:22|| Front Page Top

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