Summary: Weekly report of U.S. military deaths in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan), compiled from U.S. Department of Defense News Releases. … One-year retrospective: One year ago today, on March 2, 2009, Aubrey Immelman reported that Rep. Michele Bachmann raised eyebrows at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C., when she congratulated the new African-American chairman of the RNC with the words, “Michael Steele, you be da man, you be da man!”