Reply #1: That is likely why he said it

[karynnj]

The administration wants to reject the idea that Iraq is in a civil war.

There may also be a difference in what you are counting. If antyone shoots at an American, it is likely counted as an attack against the US. I doubt there is a similar ability to count unsuccessful attacks on Iraqis in general - in a time of chaos, I doubt even the Shiite call the mostly Shiite police to report these attacks in Baghdad. It also doesn't count the magnitude of the attack - so the awful coordinated car bombing likely counted as "1". It also is a function of the fact that we have placed our soldiers in the middle of the civil war - and they are getting hit by everyone -which is not something to celebrate.

That statistic does bring up another question though - who is making those attacks? The Iraqis, we are there to "help" or foreign Al Qaeda fighters - that even the army has admitted form a small single digit % of all the people the US has captured who are fighting us. It could be that the polls over the last several years that the majority of Iraqis want us out are right.