Originally Posted by Mohmar Deathstrike

I'd be fully willing to say that I'm half rooting for the insurgency.



If you look at the "Military Fatalities: By Month" list on http://icasualties.org/oif/ you might notice that the slight drop is not much bigger than fatality-fluctuations over the years. Here's a (poorly made) graph illustrating this: http://icasualties.org/oif_a/CasualtyTrends.htm