wow, unexpected

According to Internet Magazine:

As traffic to online news sites continues to soar, war has overtaken sex and Britney in the search engine popularity stakes.

"War was our top search term today, taking over from perennial favourites sex, Britney and travel," Nadia Schofield, a spokesperson from Freeserve, told Reuters.
'Iraq' also deposed the country music group 'Dixie Chicks' from first place in Yahoo's Buzz Index of popular US search terms.

Operation Iraqi Freedom does have this benefit. Of course, its hard to continue defending the Iraqis as they feign surrender and shoot our troops in the back.