Or any of the other offensives in Western Iraq? How about the problem with the newer higher-powered IEDs? Noticed the lack of a major Sunni uprising in the wake of their loss on the Constitution? Following the political parties moving around like crazed chessmen over there? Worse than Italy used to be.

Sometimes I wonder what Americans would have thought or known if the only news flowing out of Europe and the Pacific during WWII had been the casualty count.

I can throw you this, but you should be looking for this kind of information on your own out of sheer curiosity, if, as you claim, you are hoping for a positive outcome in Iraq.