*Not* a quagmire I tell you!

They’re bound to run out of steam, aren’t they? I mean, look at the surrounding countries, they’re not fanatics are they? The Kurds, the Palestinians, marsh Arabs, and all that?

Sh*t, the number of attacks against coalition forces is now at 33 a day (up from the 25 a day average before this week).  Of course, we don’t hear about 30-31 of those that don’t result in fatalities.  Here is an interesting chart on fatalities in Iraq since the end of the conventional war:

 Month
 Deaths
 Deaths per Hour
May

 5

 (1 per 149)

 June

 18

 (1 per 40)

 July

28

 (1 per 27)

 August

 13

 (1 per 57)

 September

 17

 (1 per 42)

October (1/24)

 24

 (1 per 24)

 Total / Average

 105

 (1 per 40)

[John Robb’s Weblog]