Casey: Iraqi Sectarian Violence Exagerrated

Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said that the news coverage of sectarian violence in Iraq over the past two weeks were "exagerrated." (Seems hard to believe that the MSM would actually exagerrate negative news in Iraq, doesn't it?)

Gen. Casey said that in a reported 30 attacks on mosques, only two were severely damaged. Of eight mosques that were reported damaged, inspections showed only one had damage -- a broken window.

Casey also said that suicide bombings in Iraq have actually been declining:

Despite the sectarian violence, the number of suicide bombers in Iraqi in February stood at 17, about half the total in January. Last summer, there were about 60 per month. Suicide-bomber attacks are the main tactic of al Qaeda in Iraq, the foreign infiltrators whose numbers have declined in the face of tighter border-control measures.

Darn - Democrats and the media thought they had themselves a full-fledged civil war - big disappointment...