Good News for the Troops

Technology is a wonderful thing -- little caveat to this statement; I believe technology is a tool and we should not be "totally dependant on it"… With that said this story is wonderful news for our men and women in Iraq.

FORT STEWART, Ga. (AP) - With U.S. deaths in Iraq topping 1,500, the commanding general of allied troops in Baghdad said Thursday he expects casualties will soon decline because of bomb-detecting technology and emboldened Iraqi informants.
"My expectation, not just a hope, is that over the coming months we'll see the number of casualties go down," Maj. Gen. William G. Webster said in a teleconference from Baghdad. "Now, I'm knocking on wood at the same time, because the enemy gets a vote in this."

I am sure this is also a "field test" for the department of homeland security!