Despair. posted by Richard Seymour

They just won't be stopped . American GIs are dropping like flies . Of course, the United States government openly boasts that it has killed almost 50,000 resistance fighters since September 2004 (why the scepticism over Lancet, then?), which reflects the obvious disparity in military power between the Iraqi resistance and US forces.

The curious thing about this is, allowing for the possibility that the US is inflating its kill rate, or that it includes civilian casualties with the resistance, if they are killing such a large number of resistance fighters, why isn't it collapsing? Time Magazine , despite advertising an explanation, doesn't know. US Marine's explanation: "they just got lucky". It's spreading to the Shi'a south , and they just don't get why.

The answer? Bomb Fallujah again!