QUOTE(jeffmoskin @ Nov 2 2009, 09:52 AM)

Not reported in MSM, but professor Juan Cole from U Of Mich reports that in the 10 months of office, BOB has reduced 25,000 troops from Iraq, lowered the war budget by $30 billion a year.
Casualties are way down because American troops no longer patrol the neighborhoods looking for thugs; the Iraqis are now doing this, which is why THEY are now getting killed.
I call that progress.
Yes, I read that article and was encouraged by it...