C'mon, you work at a library.
You're not thick, Mary Anne. I think you know the point I was making.
Comparing an average over 2 1/2 years to an average for one single month is bogus. Provide a monthly average for each month since the start of the war and then we can see some sort of trend and determine overall progress.
Then again, maybe the number of US solider deaths in Iraq is not the sole indicator of what Donald calles "things....getting better". I mean, the total number of fatalies is never going to fall, unless the Second Coming happens.