From last night's "60 Minutes": Military analyst John "Pike says the military is trying to minimize the casualty count" by failing to include up to 30,000 wounded and ill in its casualty counts. "It’s an effort Pike believes is misguided, because he says that even if Americans understood the full human cost of the war, public support would not weaken.

'I think that all of the public opinion polling that we're seeing suggests that the public is prepared to sustain far higher casualties than politicians give them credit for,' says Pike."

One still holds out a faint hope that by "full human cost," he means the direct cost to US servicemembers, not the conservatively estimated 16,000 Iraqi civilians killed or the 400,000 Iraqi children suffering from wasting due to malnutrition.