The coalition, non-Iraqi, military death rate in March was the lowest since February 2004. Casualties.org reports that 32 coalition soldiers died in Iraq in March. The total includes 30 U.S. soldiers, a Romanian soldier and a Danish soldier. Five of the 32 died of non-hostile causes including heart attack, vehicle accident, accidental weapon discharge and suicide.

One of the March deaths was a Marine who succumbed Saturday, April 1, to wounds received the previous day in Anbar province.

The chart uses a monthly average daily death rate to show a different perspective than is common in mainstream media stories like this. The two highest total monthly deaths, 140 in April 2004 and 141 in November 2004, had a daily rate far below that of March 2003, the month the invasion of Iraq began.

Saddam's army killed coalition soldiers at more than three times the average daily rate of the terrorists and Baath holdouts.