The War on the Allies

The War on the Allies - Lately, allied battle deaths in Iraq seem to far outnumber US casualties.

If we had an especially knowledgeable media, this would be bad news for Howard Dean.

Lately, troops from our foreign allies - Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish - have been getting killed, in greater absolute numbers and still-greater proportion, than US troops.

This is no accident. Hussein's sympathizers must realize by now that we're not the same US that ran from Somalia under the cover of the UN. But they also have to know that many of our allies are not especially steady on the war. Somalia-like casualties - and the Italians and Spanish just suffered them - might cause them to waver, at great political cost to the President.

The question; does Howard Dean know this? Or is he merely hoping his voters don't?

UPDATE: There's some wavering going on.