15,000 Insurgents Killed or Captured

I have had this story from Reuters for two days and must have missed the coverage on all the other media outlets... This, in my opinion, is significant! Over the past year we have stopped 15,000 or more insurgents - compare this with our casualties over the same year, it shows our military superiority. Since we all want victory, don't we, this should give us a since of pride in our military...I am in no way diminishing any man or women that has died or been hurt for their country only stating these numbers demonstrates how well these men and women of our military do their jobs! Some snippets:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. and Iraqi forces have killed or captured 15,000 people over the past year in their fight against an insurgency ravaging Iraq, the commander of U.S. forces in the country said Wednesday.
In the past month alone, they had seized around 60 leaders of the various Islamist and Baathist groups trying to drive the Americans from the war-torn country, General George Casey said.
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"If you look back over the last year we estimate we have killed or captured about 15,000 people as part of this counter-insurgency," Casey, the only four-star American general in Iraq, told reporters.
"Just in this month we have picked up around 60 key members of the Zarqawi network and key members of the former regime," he said, referring to the group led by al Qaeda's leader in Iraq, Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
"The level of violence in 14 of the 18 provinces in Iraq is four incidents or arrests a day," said Casey, who commands 150,000 U.S. troops. "It is primarily confined to four provinces. It has not spread to 80 percent of the population."
He said the level of violence had subsided since its peak in November last year -- the deadliest month for U.S. troops since the campaign to oust Saddam Hussein began.

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