Heard on the news this morning: “Baghdad has deadliest month in a half a year…”

Deadliest month in a half-a-year?? What? We have been at war for 5-years and they are now using this kind of measure? I can only assume it’s because it’s not the deadliest month against any other measure. God forbid the MSM say “Even with recent violence, the increased security in Baghdad is making a tremendous difference in fatalities.” Of course that would be, yet again, more evidence of the success of the surge and more evidence that we have an upper hand in Iraq.