The Washington Post says "The evidence of a drop in violence in Iraq is becoming hard to dispute."
"In September, Iraqi civilian deaths were down 52 percent from August and 77 percent from September 2006, according to the Web site icasualties.org. The Iraqi Health Ministry and the Associated Press reported similar results. U.S. soldiers killed in action numbered 43 -- down 43 percent from August and 64 percent from May, which had the highest monthly figure so far this year. The American combat death total was the lowest since July 2006 and was one of the five lowest monthly counts since the insurgency in Iraq took off in April 2004."
Gateway Pundit has some graphs and Andrew Sullivan comments too. Protein Wisdom has a large collection of good news clippings.
As I look at icasualties.org I see that there is definitely a dip but there have been others before. Violence being down is a good thing, but wouldn't you expect that with more troops? The change in Anbar is still because we left there to surge in Baghdad. And everyone still agrees there hasn't been political progress.
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