Iraqis are getting better at killing us...

The title of this thread, "Iraqis are getting better at killing us" is the basic summary of the article I read at the Washington Post, entitled, Attacks on U.S. Troops in Iraq Grow in Lethality, Complexity. There really isn't any other way to consider this. The longer we are there, the smarter they seem to get in using technology to figure out how to wound, maim and kill as many US soldiers as they can. They are according to the Post, rapidly figuring out how to respond to US tactics. It's why many people are saying that the surge is not working as far as trying to get Iraq under control...Some selected information from the article:

May, with 127 American fatalities, was the third-deadliest month for U.S. troops since the 2003 invasion. As in the conflict's two deadliest months for U.S. troops -- 137 died in November 2004 and 135 in April of that year -- the overarching cause of May's toll is the ongoing, large-scale U.S. military operations. Simmons called the high U.S. losses in May "a very painful and heart-wrenching experience."

The intensity of combat and the greater lethality of attacks on U.S. troops is underscored by the lower ratio of wounded to killed for May, which fell to about 4.8 to 1 -- compared with an average of 8 to 1 in the Iraq conflict, according Pentagon data. "The closer you get to a stand-up fight, the closer you're going to get to that 3-to-1 ratio" that typified 2oth-century U.S. warfare, said John Pike, director of Globalsecurity.org, a defense information Web site.