Firstly your comment about the drop in kidnappings is false. This article was published in 2003 so it is alittle outdated -
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0910/p05s02-woiq.html
But today on some blog I found a link to the washington post and it said that 30-50 are being kidnapped in Iraq each day..EACH DAY. I don't have the link because I visit alot of sites each day searching for the news. If you don't believe me, thats fine.
Yes the media has a fascination with Iraq. I wonder why? I leave that question to you to answer.
You also seem optimistic that you won the war, no point in me saying anything else because that is a pretty strange comment none the less.
It's nice to know you have vets in your internet clan. I have a question to you though. Do you have kids? If you "appreciate" what America is doing in Iraq, why don't you have your kids sign up and fight for your country, make them do a tour of duty in Iraq, have them walk the streets of Sadr city and hope for the best. Would you do such a thing? Have them fight for a war which you and your fellow country men were so blindly drawn in to.
I encourage you to read this article. It was just recently published so it has good statistics on it..I posted it on the first page but I'm sure most people didn't want to read it because it is too long.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/mid ... 350776.ece