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This year, for instance, the U.S. has killed roughly 650 terrorists a month, according to published reports and Defense Department estimates. That compares with about 37 U.S. combat deaths per month, through May.

The ratio, thus, is about 18 terrorists killed in combat for every allied soldier killed. And that doesn't include the current offensive in Diayala Province, Operation Arrowhead Ripper, which dispatched 159 enemy combatants in just the first five days.

Since the war began, we've lost about 70 troops a month. This compares with 526 a month in Vietnam, more than 900 a month in Korea and 6,639 a month during World War II.

In other words, by any meaningful metric employed, the U.S. is winning this war. But it will never be reported that way.

It just doesn't get any clearer. We have been winning this war from the start, but it has never, and will never be reported as such. Please read the article I linked to above (Hat Tip to Pat Dollard).

Here's where the numbers start to really chap my hide:

War	Casualties/Month
WW II	6,639
Korea	900
Viet Nam	526
Iraq	70

Not only have our total losses not yet come NEAR those of previous wars, but our rate of losses are so small in comparison to those of other wars as to be regarded as MINOR casualties. How does this make for a losing pattern? If the topic was productivity for a major U.S. market and the table above listed Fiscal Year instead of War and Productivity Losses/Month instead of Casualties/Month, the press would be praising the leaders of the market from the cover of every magazine and front page of every news paper. But the media and the anti-american left are synonymous terms, and neither wants their own country to win any war.

Remember the table I used to show the dramatic difference between other wars and this one. It is but one of many metrics the mainstream media will not show you when they attempt to declare the Iraq war a lost cause.

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