Are casualty averages for U.S.soldiers going up?

[Louis Cipher]

There seems to be an awful lot of ten soldiers dead, nine soldiers dead, seven soldiers dead days recently. Whereas I don't remember the casualty count ever being that high on a single day, maybe a few here and there but not with this consistency. If I were to don my tinfoil hat I'd speculate that there had been a mass casualty event and they are only releasing info on the individuals in spurts so as to lessen the blow of what really happened and to try to obscure it in the days news and other events. In any event folks, the DoD is getting us used to ten of our young boys and girls dying every single day. Is there any way to get third party confirmation on armed actions in Iraq and independent confirmation on casualties because we need it. UN? ICRC?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. Looks like fatalities have gone up, yeah.

http://icasualties.org/oif_a/CasualtyTrends.htm

In the last six or seven months. Can't say about casualties. They don't really report those. But if fatalities are going up, it's safe to say injuries are as well.

[Louis Cipher]

2. That is what I meant.

Casualties are deaths and injuries. I meant information concerning U.S. soldiers deaths.

[Kagemusha]

3. The units involved should be checked against those with rushed training.

Doesn't need to be a mass casualty event at all though. Possible, but unlikely enough that I wouldn't assume it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. I posted the following this morning, to no replies

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=946294&mesg_id=946294

[malaise]

5. They're up since the surge

particularly IED deaths. I heard this earlier this morning. Don't have a link.