American Casualties Skyrocket in Iraq

By Jeff Davis
October 18th, 2006

Every time there is a temporary lull in attacks on American troops in Iraq, the neocons scream in triumph the occupation has “turned the corner” and “we’ve got the insurgents on the run.” Then the next week there’s another spike in the American death toll. But October of 2006 may go down as the bloodiest yet in the 43 months of the war. At the time of this writing there are over sixty American dead, and the month still has another two weeks to run.

According to MSNBC, “The U.S. command said seven American troops died in fighting [around the northern Iraqi city of Balad] a day earlier. That raised the U.S. toll to 58 killed in the first two weeks of October, a pace that if continued would make the month the worst for coalition forces since 107 U.S. and 10 British soldiers died in January 2005.” Make a note of that: 107 American dead is the record Hadji Reb has to beat for October of this year, 117 if you count the British dead. We’re well on our way to suffering a record loss.

MSNBC goes on to say, “Iraqi deaths also are running at a high rate. According to an Associated Press count, 708 Iraqis have been reported killed in war-related violence this month, or just over 44 a day, compared to a daily average of more than 27 since the AP began tracking deaths in April 2005.”

Yeah, I know, most Americans couldn’t care less. A recent report that 655,000 Iraqi have died since the war began was met with a big collective yawn. (As an aside, it’s a bit ironic that the pro-White movement seems to care more about the lives of Iraqi civilians than the Democrats or Republicans.) The truth is our descendants are going to be paying in one way or another for this ghastly screw-up for generations, I suggest maybe we should start giving a damn. There are over a billion Muslims in the world and around twenty million Jews. Who would we rather make perpetual enemies of? You do the math.

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