One-third of total U. S. combat fatalities occurred in Anbar Province.

Anbar is also about one-third of Iraq, geographically.

Anbar was the deadliest Iraqi province for US troops, with nearly 1 in every 3 Americans killed there.

This sounds dubious/poorly worded. I'm thinking the writer meant to say that for every three American's killed one of them was killed in Anbar, on average. The way it is worded now it reads that 1/3rd of the Americans in Anbar were killed.

They dind't seem to have such problems trumpeting the success fo Bill Clinton's moves in Bosnia

They didn't have any problems trumpeting the success Bush had in the invasion of Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam's government, because that was news. The fact that, 5 years later, we've given one more province back to Iraqi control, is not news.

Yet, of late, despite the provden successes, nary a word from the dinosaur media.

Baby steps aren't news worthy, unless they're the first of the last. Should the media report on every city we hand over? Every neighborhood? Every street? The only think different about this story, and what has been happening for the past 2 years, is the name Anbar. When the last province is handed over, I bet you there will be media reports on it. But the 11th? How can you expect that to get coverage?

But we hardly notcied anything of this in the press, and certainly not from the left-sider blogs. I'm willing to bet your post was the first many had heard about this one. Apparently, there's no more political profit in proclaiming loudly that the war in Iraq is lost.

It's not just a case of the national media and Iraq either. My local newspaper very rarely reports on people not being killed, or the lack of disasters we've been experiencing lately. It's almost like they don't consider "the way things should be" to be news worthy.

As of this writing 11 of Iraq’s 18 provinces have been returned to Iraqi control. Formidable challenges lie ahead: the remaining seven provinces have Iraq’s greatest sectarian and ethnic diversity and include some of Iraq’s most populous.

But we hardly notcied anything of this in the press, and certainly not from the left-sider blogs. I'm willing to bet your post was the first many had heard about this one. Apparently, there's no more political profit in proclaiming loudly that the war in Iraq is lost. Doesn't help their case, I suppose, when Anbar, a province whereone US soldier was dying on average, daily, is treurned, nominially to the control of the newly formed Iraqi government.

OTOH, there's more political profit, one supposes, in spinning events surrounding Sarah Palin.

Thus the relative coverage of each.