[Southack]

The problem wasn't the war, war leadership, or execution...but the artificially-high standards set by the news media.

How many wars 50 or 100 or 1000 years ago would have books printed declaring them to be a failure if they conquered a country in 3 weeks and lost only 1 or 2 soldiers per day during their post-invasion occupation?!

Lightning kills more Americans per year (759) than does the terrorists in Iraq (737), yet the news media gets away with calling Iraq "chaotic" or in anarchic "civil war" or other such nonsense.

[WOSG]

General George Washington lost more men in Valley Forge than we lost in combat in Iraq so far, yet George 1 is revered while George 43 is not- yet.

[Coop]

He said the captured individual was also close to the Abu Ayyub al-Masri, who allegedly took charged of Al-Qaeda's Iraqi subsididary following the June 7 death of Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. During the operation, five suspected "terrorists" were killed and another five detained, he told reporters.

Five cowardly sleazeballs assumed room temperature, another six off the streets - including one biggie who may lead us a step closer to Zarqawi's successor.

Job well done, American and Iraqi forces!!