Reuters writes:
>The United States has lost at least 39 dead and 104 injured with 17
>listed as missing since the war began. Britain has lost 24 dead.
>Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, in a letter to U.N. Secretary
>General Kofi Annan (news - web sites), said 420 Iraqi civilians had
>died and at least 4,000 were wounded since the start of the war.
-And <http://www.iraqbodycount.net> is saying 433-541 Iraqi civilian -deaths. But what's with the U.S./UK ratio? Brits are getting killed -at a far higher rate. What gives? Is that what the junior partner -gets?
To be fair, they were originally given what was supposed to be the cleanup role-- after the US swept through the South and encircled Baghdad, Basra et all would rise up and Britain was there to collect the flowers strewn on the liberating soldiers.
Instead, Britain got to Basra and are involved in the first hard urban fighting of the war.
Once US soldiers go for Baghdad, the numbers will shift significantly back to the US.
-- Nathan