Reply #2: Really good post. People don't get the effect we are having [View All]

on Iraq - a number equivalent to 1,372,972 Americans (4 per 1,000) - that is an eye-opening number.

Is your 4 per 1,000 based on Iraq Body Count (30,000+) or estimates like the Lancet article (which estimated 100,000 over a year ago)?

Also - Operation Swarmer seems to have been a spoof - On Scene: How Operation Swarmer Fizzled

"But contrary to what many many television networks erroneously reported, the operation was by no means the largest use of airpower since the start of the war. ("Air Assault" is a military term that refers specifically to transporting troops into an area.) In fact, there were no airstrikes and no leading insurgents were nabbed in an operation that some skeptical military analysts described as little more than a photo op. What’s more, there were no shots fired at all and the units had met no resistance, said the U.S. and Iraqi commanders."