So each day there have been an average of 18 Coalition casualties in Iraq, and between 32 and 36 killed Iraqi civilians since Bush decided to invade Iraq.

No one knows the number of armed Iraqi men which have been killed in combat with Coalition forces, but their number of course is limited by the total number of Iraqi men who have taken up arms against US troops since the fall of Baghdad in April 2003.

I don't know the total number of men which have joined the Iraqi resistance to fight the US troops since then. But I doubt the guerilla forces have been able to muster hundreds of thousands of armed men or even tens of thousands.

I would guess that the total number of guerilla forces which presently are holding the 130,000-strong US force bogged down and scaring the s... out of the US soldiers is somewhere between two and five thousand armed men. (I remember when US officials denied there were more than a couple of hundred "diehards", but that obviously was just another case of grossly underestimating the risks in Iraq.)