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The media seems to be giving assymetrical coverage: US losses only.

How many Iraqi tanks were hit?

reports last night were that 70 to 72 tanks were destroyed by these Apaches. I am pretty sure it was the same mission because it was described as the mission where the one Apache had to make a forced landing.

Key point. The media, as expected, is reporting on the tire that went flat, not the 3 that are still working. We have taken 10's of thousands of square miles of their country, faced and engaged tens of thousands of their troops, taken on all the 'assymetric' warfare that they have been able to muster so far, and yet we have only suffered a few dozen KIA's, a hundred or two injured, and a dozen or so captured.

What we're NOT hearing is how many KIA we have incurred on them, and don't forget we have a few thousand POW's to boot. A back of the envelope estimate of Iraqi KIA's would probably be in the thousands at this point. We still have good reason to believe Saddam and his band are out of commission, either dead or wounded, and these 'pockets of resistance' that we keep hearing about mean we're more in control of the situation than they are. Contrast this with the early days of the Afghan campaign, when WE were the pockets of resistance to a largely Taliban held country.

Things aren't going that bad.