PM .  The US fatalities in Iraq are low because of one thing:  body armor .  Upwards of 80% of life threatening injuries are to the arms and legs.&

PM.  The US fatalities in Iraq are low because of one thing:  body armor.  Upwards of 80% of life threatening injuries are to the arms and legs.  The low KIA (killed in action) numbers enabled by body armor conceal the level of violence in the country.  Of course the elite guerrillas (the core fighters that have learned from the mistakes of the cannon fodder thrown at us over the last year) are starting to use body armor too. [John Robb’s Weblog]

The picture is a good catch by John Robb. Whoever wrote the caption didn’t get the significance of the guerilla wearing armor–or even that he’s wearing US military armor.