They wont report it. Why do you think they have turned their attention toward Afghanistan?

 Mentioning Iraq is good for Mccain so it will be ignored.

remember the republican prosperity 94-06,

as the democrat depression deepings 06-??

This qualifies as "good news" about Iraq, hence shall be swept under the rug by the MsM, poste haste. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

Funny. Did anyone else notice the surge in casualties on November 2004, the month where the country decided whether to elect John Kerry or George Bush?

Does anyone suspect an insider?

They will either ignore this news, or combine the troop deaths from both Afganistan and Iraq, check the average death count of previous May & June numbers as a percentage of increase, not over all deaths, and report on the highest percentage increase of any category they find. Here's an example.

Those in favor of the Iraq war will say that in the months of May and June the U.S. has seen a dramatic decrease in troop deaths, with 48 killed, 38 from hostile causes.

H-O-W-E-V-E-R, from May to June the total number of US troop deaths in Iraq saw a dramatic increase of 50%. Leaving some [meaning the reporter him or herself] to believe this belated optimism may again be premature. 

While the number of deaths decreased in Iraq, the numbers in Afganistan were at the highest levels since combat began in 2001, bringing the total number of American deaths in May and June at there, combined, highest since President Bush gave the orders to depose the Taliban. 

Fierce critics of the Presidents policies [Again, said critics are the reporter him or herself] say without a political solution by both fledgling "Democracy's" [Notice the quotation marks, meant as a morality boost to the Anchor while reading the teleprompter.] these relatively low numbers could be short lived.

On on to more positive news. Barack Obama, today, has revealed for the first time his favorite toothpaste...[tingle down leg of Anchor]

The same way they handle it every time. By not handling it at all.

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"It could be the answer to our age-old, philosophical question, 'Why are we here?' PLASTIC!"

It's worse than just not reporting the plummeting casualities, CNN is blantantly "reporting" lies. Just today at lunch, I heard a weak and frail talking head on CNN say, in regards to sending in I-Reports, "with troops being killed every day, we want to hear from you." And the punk smiled when he said it.

I don't mean to brag or anything...Heck, yes I do. Earlier on this post in the comment section I made my own prediction as to what the spin would be in the reporting on the fact that May and June were the lowest numbers of troop deaths since the war began. Let me first quote from my prediction and then I will quote from an Boston Globe/AP article on this subject. Here's what I wrote earilier.

They will either ignore this news, or combine the troop deaths from
both Afganistan and Iraq, check the average death count of previous May
& June numbers as a percentage of increase, not over all deaths,
and report on the highest percentage increase of any category they
find. Here's an example.

Those in favor of the Iraq war will say that in the months of May
and June the U.S. has seen a dramatic decrease in troop deaths, with 48
killed, 38 from hostile causes.

H-O-W-E-V-E-R, from May to June the total number of US troop deaths in Iraq saw a dramatic increase of 50%. Leaving some [meaning the reporter him or herself] to believe this belated optimism may again be premature. 

While the number of deaths decreased in Iraq, the numbers in
Afganistan were at the highest levels since combat began in 2001,
bringing the total number of American deaths in May and June at there,
combined, highest since President Bush gave the orders to depose the
Taliban. 

Fierce critics of the Presidents policies [Again, said critics are the reporter him or herself] say without a political solution by both fledgling "Democracy's" [Notice the quotation marks, meant as a morality boost to the Anchor while reading the teleprompter.] these relatively low numbers could be short lived.

On on to more positive news. Barack Obama, today, has revealed for the first time his favorite toothpaste...[tingle down leg of Anchor]

And here's what the Boston Globe/AP wrote:

Afghanistan deadlier than Iraq again for troops

June 30, 2008

KABUL, Afghanistan—More U.S. and NATO troops have been killed in Afghanistan than in Iraq for the second straight month.

An Associated Press count finds that attacks in Afghanistan killed at least 44 international troops in June.

About 30 international troops have died in Iraq this month.

A
record number of U.S. and NATO troops now patrol Afghanistan's
dangerous countryside, exposing more soldiers than ever to danger. But
Taliban attacks are becoming increasingly complex, and in June,
increasingly deadly.

Four attacks in June killed four soldiers. No single attack had killed more than three international troops since last August.

Now you have to admit, although I was off with specific details, the narrative and the strategy I predicted was pretty close. Don't you think?