http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx
The death toll for American soldiers in Iraq has now reached 600. The number of wounded climbs by hundreds every month. Things are worse now than they've been since last November--and that's only speaking about our troops. It's not considering civilian fatalities, Iraqi, American, and people from other countries. Those have also gotten much worse, much more common, much more brutal. The country is disentegrating. Civil war is an increasing possibility. Power has still not been consistently restored. Economic life consists mainly of trafficking in stolen goods, extortion, kidnapping for ransom, and cellphone sales. Oil wells are still burning. Crime is worse than it has been in the history of Iraq. Terrorism is a daily reality. And Islamic Fundamentalists are looking more and more likely to become the dominant political force in a country we were supposedly going to make into a western style democracy.
Oh, and most Iraqis hate our guts. Thankfully, only a small minority of them actually want to drag our lifeless bodies through their streets. So far. But hey, the year is young. George W. Bush is still President. Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are still running things. The sky's the limit.