You know how the Democrats - John Edwards principal among them - were using the casualty statistics in Iraq to demonstrate to us just how the situation in Iraq is slowly deteriorating into chaos and quagmire?

I mean, the reality you and George Bush continue to tell people, first, that things are going well in Iraq -- the American people don't need us to explain this to them, they see it on their television every single day. We lost more troops in September than we lost in August; lost more in August than we lost in July; lost more in July than we lost in June.

Well, there are five days left in October, but here's how this month compares to those others.

October - 50
September - 87
August - 75
July - 58
June - 50

Let's go back to a few more bad months which I guess Edwards got too tired to mention, shall we?

May - 84
April - 140

I guess based on Democrat logic the war is turning in our favor again and Iraq is much more stable than earlier this year - and isn't that Bush's argument?