U.S. troops death toll lowest in eight months

[ProSense]

July............80
June..........101
May...........126
April...........104
March..........81
February......81
January.......83
December...112
November....70
October.....106

link


Wow, one less than February and March.



How's the surge working? Facts and figures for May through July 2003-2007

[ruiner4u]

1. i hope it continues to fall...

[BlooInBloo]

14. Actually, the trend line is *increasing* at the rate of about .7 more deaths per month.

EDIT: Subject typo.

[ruiner4u]

19. I was referring to the last three months..

it looks like a nice trend from 126, 101, 80...


so i hope it continues that trend... it most likely wont.. but i hope anyway..

Naive I know, but like that all hope is anymore.. :(

[MichiganVote]

2. Not low enough. Not to mention the Iraqi population deaths....

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. Iraqi Deaths This Month: The Iraqi government said 1,653 civilians were killed in July,

August 1, 2007 - 7:02 PM

Sunni bloc quits Iraq government
By Mariam Karouny and Peter Graff

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - "The main Sunni Arab political bloc quit the Iraqi cabinet on Wednesday, plunging the government into crisis on a day when suicide bombers killed more than 70 people with massive strikes in the capital.

The Iraqi government said 1,653 civilians were killed in July, a third more than the previous month, despite a fall in the number of deaths among U.S. troops.

Fifty of Wednesday's dead were killed when a suicide bomber in a fuel truck packed with explosives targeted motorists at a petrol station, police said. Another suicide bomber killed 20 people outside a popular ice cream shop across town. Another bomber killed three in southern Doura district."

http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/international/ticker/detail/Sunni_bloc_quits_Iraq_government.html?siteSect=143&sid=8069707&cKey=1185995258000

[MichiganVote]

15. Unreal isn't it....

[Ghost in the Machine]

17. Imagine if that was happening here on OUR soil...

Would we be considered insurgents by our occupiers because we fought to protect our families, homes and property?

[MichiganVote]

18. Nah...we just let some die a slow death, abandon kids, send our money overseas, and

provide corporate welfare to bloated businesses with overstuffed CEO's, marshall morality and then demand smaller government,allow mentally ill people access to guns, sanction pure propaganda via our communication systems, and just generally ignore the very populace that makes democracy possible.

We're civilized don't you know.

[Botany]

3. Look @ what happened today

http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/index.html

[razors edge]

5. Bush stopped reporting the stats

on the electrical plant's hours working in Iraq, and I find myself wondering if he would have a harder time lying by omission about energy or dead troops flown back in the middle of the night.

[ProSense]

6. Kick! n/t

[and-justice-for-all]

7. Well, I guess the 'surge' is a success...(sarcasm)

[ProSense]

8. Eleven more coalition troops killed in July 2007 than eight months ago

July 89
November 78

[Bluebear]

9. Wunderbar! Only 2.5 dead soldiers a day!

:sarcasm:

[Wiley50]

10. Poor Fuckers are scared to death and taking no chances. no Thanks to Betrayus

Wonder if the number of Iraqi's killed by Us troops has risen?

[Disturbed]

12. When the death and injury tolls get real low like 4 or five

a month most Americans will no longer pay much attention to Iraq. That is the goal of the Busholini Regime aside from getting the Oil Deal Done.

[independentpiney]

11. Casualties are higher than the previous summer months

There was a good chart posted in a thread a few days back.

[opihimoimoi]

13. At 120 degrees heat...even the Iraqis stay in the shade....

[butterfly77]

16. Good. Now let's change strategy...

and get out of Iraq.