18,509 Total U.S. Casualties            
   
2,180 Dead   

16,329 Wounded
                  
Data for weeks ending:
Wednesday 1/4/2005


Interesting that the overall trend seems to be _slightly_ on the decline (the peaks are lower than 11/04). And also interesting that over 90% of the casualties occurred AFTER Baghdad "fell", which indicates something about the layers of hostility in the region over all -- they are not anchored to Baghdad and Saddam Hussein; their is no central government which can govern a "capitualation", but a widely distributed loosely affiliated network of extremists with different reasons for guerilla attacks.

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