Out of Centcom so far this week:

BAGHDAD RAIDS NET 22 TERROR SUSPECTS, WEAPONS, $6 MILLION

OPERATION SQUEEZE PLAY NETS 285 SUSPECTS ON FIRST DAY

These terrorists are the same types of people who took part in the Sept. 11 attacks, blew up a train in Madrid, and set off car bombs and nightclub bombs.

And President Bush said yesterday:

I think they're being defeated. And that's why they continue to fight. The worst thing for them is to see democracy... The worst problem that an ideologue that uses terror to try to get their way is to see a free society emerge. And I'm confident we're making great progress in Iraq.

And clearly, it's dangerous and we mourn the loss of life. On the other hand, the eight-and-a-half million Iraqis who went to the polls sent a very clear message to the world, that they want to be free.