Iraq Assessment

Hopefully this trend will continue and hopefully those that are responsible for allowing the violence to reach the levels it did will be punished in an appropriate fashion. Source
The numbers are still unacceptable, of course. Over 1 lethal-force attack per day per 28,000 people is terrible. Halving that is good, but the situation is still far from good.

I was of course being generic. While we agree on certain responsible parties, we almost certainly disagree on others. Anyone who makes a decision like "Let's fire everybody with any skill in the office-work required to run a government. Oh. And let's make unemployed all those people who are trained in warfare and who also know where the Iraqi weapons caches are stored: they are the demographic we really want to piss off and disenfranchise in an effort to win hearts and minds" should be held responsible for the inevitable and obvious consequences, for example.

UNICEF reports that 700 were bombed, 200 burned and over 3,000 were looted between 2003 and 2004. It would be interesting to see what progress has been made towards getting this back up and running versus the damage done since.Anybody have any figures?Edited by Modulous, : No reason given.