The troops in Iraq are not there to die. They have been trained and equipped (the body armor issue has been dead for a year) the best that we can. If three years ago someone told me we were going to invade Iraq, put stabilization forces in place and have them there for a long time and then told me that there would be less than 5000 KIA's I would have told them they were smoking hash. We lost more troops in the opening hours of operation overlord than that.