Running out of steam, Tel?
The body count is growing month on month. December - 2000-odd killed (that we know of). Would you be willing to take a stroll outside the green zone?
And Fallujah was rather more than an exercise for the USMC - it brought foreign fighters to queues on the borders to come and join the party, and was seemingly the catalyst for bringing in a wider, Al Queda-inspired tranche of Sunnis to join the civil war. Sorry, uprising.
Is that like the vietnam uprising, by the way?
So come on poppet, take the tinfoil off your head, wake up and face a little reality here. The US and British official briefings are about as reliable as those during Vietnam and the Falklands; they have a gloss to put on matters, and will say that black is white if it suits them.
Your much-derided media probably has a better grasp on reality. Not the chairborne warriors in London, New York and Washington, but those on the ground who venture outside the green zone once in a while. There aren't many of them, because it's a dangerous calling, but they are the ones giving the true picture. Talk to squaddies who have done tours there - they'll tell you the situation's going to ratshit. Not much patrolling in berets gets done these days, my love; it's lids on and lock down.
But I suppose you'll carry on carrying the flag valiantly for the armchair warriors. Bless!