In the post I have just made which I repost below I will clarify:
The post was not meant to be anti American. I treat reports from all sides in a war with a great deal of skeptism as regards their accuracy. Remember the Iraqi Information Minister on TV? Who kept insisting that Iraq was winning the war. Even as US troops were in sight as they were occupying Baghdad!! -------------------------------------------------- "I do not believe US reports of their losses in war which I expect will be sanitised for public consumption and propaganda purposes. The first casualty of war is the truth."