Ralph Kinney Bennett take on Why ‘Bloody Sunday’ Didn’t Happen:
As the day of the historic Iraqi elections came to a close the incapability of the vitiated Baathist/Islamofascist forces to carry out their bloody, histrionic threats became apparent. They were not able to exact casualties above the normal accident rate in a country of 27 million people.
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Even by conservative estimates, coalition and Iraqi forces have killed more than 15,000 terrorists.
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It is true that skilled and fanatically tenacious Baathists (who really believed they were going to regain power in Iraq) were able to team up with al Qaeda fighters and raise violence to new levels in Iraq over the past half year. But while they killed hundreds of Iraqi civilians and more than 350 American soldiers, they did so at the cost of almost 7000 of their own men.