Reply #11: I checked this on Snopes and the author is an engineer

[Divernan]

with the rank of major, and he does send emails to his church. This was first published on the internet the last week of July and his claims are suspect for several reasons. First of all, a Major is not that high a rank for a guy to be in a position to have personal knowledge of one tenth of the information he presents as fact. He's speaking for the condition of the whole country, for the identity of every single Iraqi who's attacked a US soldier (he claims they're all baathists). etc. This letter was evidently sent around mid-July and we know there were major riots by Iraqis demanding fuel after that. I think this guy just copies out the official pentagon PR line and sends it home - I'm sure with a copy to his CO for brownie points. What I find most repulsive is that he claims many of the US casualties are via "accidents" - and we know the army counts injuries from mines as accidents.

I think the original poster of this should have included background on this email - where he/she got it, when it was written, and what his/her opinion of it is.