until the US monthly KIA figures start going down, I don't think perception is going to change. I agree with you about the PR stuff, but its hardly a secret that the media was going to behave this way - its totally predictable.
We aren't fighting many Iraqis. We're fighting mostly Syrians, Jordanians, Saudis, Yemenis etc. We are fighting people from Madrid (they just killed one of the Madrid bombers the other day in Iraq), and Paris, and England. We are pulling these nutcases from every country and killing them. Just imagine how many of these guys would have been blowing themselves up on the streets of New York if they weren't being drawn to Iraq.
It's a war for God's sake! The sacrifice is horrible, but the alternative is unimaginable.