US Troop losses in Iraq are faked

Recently the unnaturally low numbers of US troop losses in Iraq have been explained: only US citizens killed in action are counted. The numbers do not include any of the 5000 Mexicans fighting in uniform who have been promised a Green Card if they survive. Nor do any casualties among the roughly 10 000 Ukrainians fighting in US uniforms appear in the statistics. They serve in “recognition” of the great help provided in the “Orange Revolution” in the Ukraine in 2005.

Moreover, the French magazine “Raids” has published classified American numbers about the deployment of American military forces in Iraq. According to these numbers, more than 2400 US soldiers have been killed in action since the invasion of Iraq about three years ago, and more than 17 000 have been wounded. “A tragic toll, that has to be rewritten every day.” All in all, 104 helicopters, including 14 Chinook and 27 Apache helicopters (worth more than 50 million US dollars each) have been destroyed, more than 100 damaged or inoperative. Besides the fighting, it is the dry desert dust that causes problems for all aerial and ground equipment. Repair costs alone have already amounted to 2.6 million US dollars […] Over 14 000 vehicles of the ground troops have been destroyed, which is a vehicle per day (including 450 Hummer and 49 Abrams M1 tanks). The number of small arms lost exceeds 30 000. The repair and maintenance work on arms and light weapons cause enormous problems for the US army. Endurance decreases rapidly in the desert sand. 20 million working hours (!) have been devoted to maintenance in 2006, with an increasing tendency.

Source: Vertraulicher Schweizer Brief of 27 May 06