Friday, June 03, 2005

The State of Iraq

Hmmm... I wonder how they came up with some of the numbers in this graph.

Iraq civilians killed in warfare ops is a loose term on its own, and since the US Military studiously avoids counting the dead Iraqis, how did they arrive at these values? Similarly, there is a controversy over the number of trained Iraqi Security Forces... last I heard, the estimate wasn't half that high (not that 50k is very good).

Beyond that, the number that truly struck me is the number of wounded troops per month: 615. That's an awful lot of broken lives for zero WMD's and heap of external responsibilities.

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