By The Numbers

The Pentagon just released it’s quarterly report on Iraq:

From August through November, there was an average of 959 attacks per week against U.S. soldiers. This is the highest since the start of the war.

Civilian deaths are averaging 93/day – a high. That’s 8,370 civilian deaths for the quarter – nearly three times the toll for 9/11.

There are more than one thousand “sectarian executions” each month – also a high. Sectarian executions are inexplicably not counted in the civilian death total.

“The enemy has achieved a strategic success by unleashing a spiral of sectarian killings by Sunni and Shiite death squads that threatens Iraq's political institutions.”