U.S. Iraq war casualties reach new milestone

[Diomedes]

3,879

Two months running the U.S. has seen drastically reduced casualties compared to years gone by.  Perhaps the so-called surge is making it harder for insurgents to conduct business?  Or they're tired out and gone to ground?  Or they decided Bush was right afterall?

[Drunkmasterflex]

I am by no means a general or an expert, but to me the surge in troops probably has reduced the casualties.  It reduces the battle space and allows us to concentrate on smaller areas.

[Diomedes]

makes sense.  one of the big initial flaws in Iraq was that Bush didn't have the balls to put enough people there to secure the joint.  that would of course have required a draft, which would have brought a wholesale referendum on his idiotic war because the whole farging country would suddenly have a stake, be forced to pay attention, and many more than in Vietnam would refuse.

anyway, less casaulties is good..

[ice grillin you]

definitely should have been way more troops....but the disasterous move was bremmer wolfie and rummy disabanding the iraqi army....that is where almost all of the insurgents came from

[Diomedes]

after "invade wrong country," keeping track of which disaster was worse is hard to do, but you got to admit the Bush loyalists made a hugely arrogant tactical mistake by disbanding them...especially given how thin their own resources were

[ice grillin you]

yeah the band of follies is hard to follow...but putting a half million out of work soldiers on the streets of baghdad a month after you took over their country takes the cake

[Diomedes]

out of their mouths!  takes the cake right out of their towelhead mouths!  USA!  USA!

[ice grillin you]

who wants cake when you can have apple pie

[Diomedes]

 

[General_Failure]

There's a simple solution. Apple crumb cake.

[Drunkmasterflex]

My first roomate in the barracks was killed last week.  Army Spc. Johnathan A. Lahmann, 21, Richmond, Ind

Not much to say other than he was a good kid and very generous.  He was big into S.H.A.R.P. (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice).  Rest in peace bro.

[rjs246]

Really sorry to hear that, Drunk.

[Sgt PSN]

That sucks DMF. 

Not sure what the running death total in Iraq is right now but when it comes to friends and drinking buddies of mine, that number stands at 19 and probably well into the 30's or 40's for serious combat injuries (loss of limb, etc) Luckily, it's been there for about 6 months now and hasn't changed.  Of course, a lot of my friends have been getting out lately too so that probably has something to do with it. 

[Diomedes]

The count is 3,896, and currently averaging less than one death per day, a huge decrease from 5 months ago.

Here is the DoD notice about Johnathan A. Lahmann's death.

http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=11548

And here's his Legacy.com page:  http://legacy.com/Soldier/Story.aspx?Page=FSStory&PersonID=99528295
The guest book entries are worth browsing.

[Diomedes]

3,929

25 so far in 2008