They've been unable to match their earlier damage, which points to their inability to recruit local Iraqis to their cause.
Keep in mind that Iraqis voted at 60% of the population in their January 2005 election, 63% in their October 2005 vote, and 70+% in their election this month...which is to say that the Iraqis are choosing a side, and it isn't the side of the insurgency.
The voting percentage trend on our side makes the above statement just as powerfully as the decline in insurgency lethality does for the other side.
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Cap Huff and I were discussing recently how quiet Zarqawi has become not a peep in over a month...seems he went dark right after that Mosul raid...in which it was thought he was whacked.
yep it was really hairy for a bit when I returned from my vacation in November.
But let's also remember that the Marines cleared out Fallujah again in November, right after the election, so the numbers might be spiked a bit.