BTW folks, we're 12 days into the month and the US casualty ratio in Iraq is currently < 1.0 per day. There has never been a < 1.0/day month for an entire month since the war started. Don't want to jinx this, but it is possible that if this holds up the rest of this month and maintains, it will likely emerge as obvious progress whether the MSM likes it or not.
But that is exactly what the media will do...ignore the progress and move on to some other statistic they can use to demonstrate that the war is going badly.
The MSM has done this from day one. When we took an operational pause--it was a quagmire even though it was only to allow our supply lines to catch up to our troops.
The fact that we established control over the 4th largest army in the world in less than 2 weeks with a lowest casualties of any war in history is ignored.
I agree with much you say but check out February,2004 as far as death rate goes.However I do think this casualty rate decline is a hopeful sign.Every death though is a grief and sorrow.