[Coop]

Three days of ongoing fighting in towns near the Syrian border killed at least 61 people, at least 56 of them Tuesday, said Dr. Ali Rawi, emergency-room director at the hospital in the largest city near the fighting, Qaim, about 200 miles northwest of Baghdad. Forty-two of them wore the black training-suits and athletic shoes favored by Zarqawi's fighters, Rawi said.

That's my kind of progress, and it's difficult to argue with a metric like this one.

[LS]

The real crime of this war is that the media isn't even doing half its job in really putting these terrorist casualties in perspective. By my calculations, we've killed close to 5,000 of these scum since 2003. As a % of the anti-US population, that's a huge # (even accounting for foreign fighter) and no army in history has sustained those kinds of losses.

[dighton]

Forty-two of them wore the black training-suits and athletic shoes favored by Zarqawi's fighters ...

“Don’t bother running, you’ll only die tired.”

[BOBTHENAILER]

"We decided, either we force them out of the city or kill them," with the support of U.S. bombardment, Mahallawi said.

yeah baby......great news

[BOBTHENAILER]

Fox just said over 70 killed and AC-130's now being used as well as the hornets. The ratline is being hit HARD.