“Security”

At the beginning of the month, I suggested that the next official assessment of the much-touted security crackdown in Baghdad would be less optimistic than the last. The cold statistics of the last couple of weeks have borne that out. According to fataility reports complied by the Iraq Coalition Casualty Count, two hundred and thirty-three Iraqi civilians and security personnel were killed between June 28 and July 10. This eclipses not only the 154 slain during the first two weeks of the security initiative, but also the 190 killed in the two weeks before the crackdown even started.

General Tommy Franks once famously said, “We don’t do body counts.” It’s easy to see why.

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