It's looking like the recent blow against the terrorist camp in Iraq wasn't as big as originally reported.

I told you so. I suggested that it was best to wait for the follow-up reports before dancing with glee about "bad news in Iraq."

The big discrepancy in the early report was that the number of seized weapons was miniscule. Why would 85 dead people in a "training base" have only one RPG, one bomb, and maybe one or two rifles? How were the rest of the insurgents going to fight? With their hands?

The same situation happened in Vietnam, with inflated body counts. The best military commanders preferred to count number of captured weapons after a firefight. After all, if there was a body, he probably had a gun on him, and that could be collected and taken back to base.