Reply #4: I don't consider a less than 20% drop "dramatic",

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but fewer deaths are a good thing.

47 more and it will be the highest number killed in a calendar year for Bush's war. We're averaging 2 deaths a day, so with 91 days left, I don't think he'll have much to crow about by year's end.

http://icasualties.org/oif/

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Reported U.S. Deaths Pending DoD Confirmation: 4
Post Iraq Deaths Not Confirmed By the DoD: 2
U.S. Deaths: Self-Inflicted as reported by the DoD as of 8/31/2007: 122