Seven US soldiers killed in West Baghdad

Not a mention of this during the hearing or on any news network:

Seven U.S. soldiers were killed and 11 injured in a vehicle accident in western Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said.

Still, Petraeus claimed today that security in Baghdad is better since the troop surge began:

Coalition and Iraqi operations have helped reduce ethno-sectarianviolence as well, bringing down the number of ethno-sectarian deathssubstantially in Baghdad and across Iraq since the height of thesectarian violence last December.

Actually, that is not true.  As far as civilians in Baghdad were concerned, the last two months have been bad:

428 Iraqis were murdered in Baghdad in August, their bodies dumped inthe streets. In July, 612 Iraqis were murdered, according to theInterior Ministry.

I don't believe a word of what was said today by Petraeus and Crocker.