As far as I remember Rumsfeld, in a press conference that I can not find a link to that!, estimated the number of "insurgents" in Iraq a few thousands. Now they claim that they have killed 1000 insurgents. If this administration tells the truth -as it always does- we are very close to the end of insurgency. If that is the case, we are almost done!(In fact these are not a part of "the major combat operation" this was over more than a year ago.) However to get to this point thousands of civilians have been killed.