QUOTE:
"I'd consider that a grand victory...3,000 casualties for all of Baghdad."
I wouldn't consider 3,000 casualties a grand victory. This article was in the Express-Times, my local paper, this morning:
Local Army man, Captain Chris Seifert, victim of grenade attack [Easton, PA]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/873795/posts