<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b8cfa99f-c8e8-4382-ba8e-730bc99473bd/DF891520-2D9C-474F-9BEB-332E5233400F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2007_06_24.php" href="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2007_06_24.php" style="font-size: 11px;">www.talkingpointsmemo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2007_06_24.php"><P><SPAN class="smallcaps">As of yesterday,</SPAN> three years to the week after the president triumphantly proclaimed, "<A href="http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/28/let-freedom-reign/">Let freedom reign</A>," we are now seeing the end of the <A href="http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/jun/29/last_three_months_the_worst_ever_for_iraq_war">deadliest quarter</A> for U.S. forces in Iraq since the war began.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2007_06_24.php"><P>As reader W.B. noted via email, using <A href="http://icasualties.org/oif/">this data</A>, we're also ending the deadliest four-month period and the deadliest five-month period. For all the talk from war supporters about "progress," the fatality rates are sobering.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DF891520-2D9C-474F-9BEB-332E5233400F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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