From
http://www.icasualties.org/oif/IraqiDeaths.aspx
The costs of war continue to add up, not just for Americans, but for Iraqi security forces and civilians. Since June 18, 56 Iraqi security forces and 50 civilians have been killed by a new wave of suicide bombings and ambushes across the country. This after 3 recent offenses by US Forces to counteract these very acts - after over two years of tactics designed to break this insurgency - an insurgency that, even without Hussein, Al Sadr, and other "leaders" whose names we have forgotten, continues to grow.
The questions are obvious, of course:
How can a "free Iraq" even be possible in this situation? How long, if ever, will it be before there is any Iraqi security force in place that is strong enough to let the US Troops come home without sending Iraq swooning into irreparable civil war? How long before the "coalition of the willing" doesn't even include those in Iraq we were supposed to be liberating?
There was a time in my life where some self-righteous part of me took comfort in being able to say, "I told you so". But there's no comfort here ... least of all for the Iraqis.