CNN Bias?

From CNN front page this morning:

"Boot muscle for Baghdad

About 70,000 troops, mostly Iraqis, are rolling out to dominate Baghdad's streets. They've got new uniforms and a unity-pushing name for the effort. But as the crackdown started, insurgent bombs went off, and people were still dying."

I guess no one died in the US (or Cuba or Somalia or Saudi Arabia) yesterday. Though if someone did, it was no doubt Bush's fault.

Is it me or is the tone of this paragraph defeatist? This past week represented the best week Iraq has had in a while (new cabinet, Z-man dead, several other Al-Killda honchos arrested), but CNN can't bring itself to pat anyone on the back. Afterall, someone, somewhere died.