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[dooner]

from the story...

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Maj-Gen Rick Lynch, the top US military spokesman in Iraq, said 1,534 insurgents had been seized or killed in a recent operation in the west of Baghdad. Other estimates from military officials suggest that at least 20,000 insurgents have been killed in President George Bush's "war on terror".

based on the GAO's figures, US forces had expended around six billion bullets between 2002 and 2005.

using these figures it works out at around 300,000 bullets per insurgent. Let's round that down to 250,000 so that we are underestimating."