Anyone Notice a Trend?

Well, it appears the good news from Iraq is beginning to filter out finally.

As we've noted recently, the U.S. troops casualties have decreased, there's been a noteworthy downtick in
Ramadan violence, and today comes a report from the BBC that is sure to depress the Democrats.

Iraq violent death rates 'plunge'

The number of Iraqi civilians killed per month in bombings and shootings has fallen to the lowest level this year, the Iraqi government says.

In September, 884 civilians were killed by violence, less than half the figure for August, the government said.

The BBC's Jon Brain in Baghdad says the figures suggest the so-called surge involving 30,000 extra US troops is having some success.

September also saw the lowest number of US troops killed for more than a year.

Also decreasing were the number of Iraq security forces killed, and in a bit of bad news, fewer terrorists went off to meet Allah, although that could well be the fact the bad guys are running out of fresh reinforcements.

Additional figures released by the government indicated that the death toll had fallen by 38% compared with last year's Ramadan, according to the Muslim calendar.

The figures showed 78 members of the Iraqi security forces were killed, down from the 87 killed in August.

The militant death toll was 366, a drop of 106 from the previous month.

Chuckie Schumer and the military experts from MoveOn.org were unavailable for comemnt.

UPDATE: Gateway Pundit also noticed the trend.