guard deaths

cnn reports analysis of the first 2000 US deaths in iraq shows national guard account for 17% in the first 12 months, about 22% from march 2004 to march '05, and approximately 40% after that—overall, about 25%.

a third of all deaths were caused by improvised explosive devices—IEDs.

the 1000th day of the war is in about a month, so the overall average death rate has risen above 2 per day.