Almost 7,000 Civilian Deaths Reported in Iraq in Less Than Two Months?

Mind you, we know from Iraq that the reported deaths probably represent a fraction (granted, likely a large one but still does not likely count hundreds in less organized or communicative areas) of the whole. But 6,599 reported deaths are what we admit.

Yet all we get from our government is military press releases insisting deaths will be sharply reduced (which then turned out to be because they were not going to report deaths from car bombs and other dramatic acts of insurgency), and the blather of "Stay the course."

If your car has been careening down an icy mountain pass for a bit now, wouldn't you assume you're not in control of your car and you need to do something different so you don't like - you know - (fucking) die?

So why are we doing this to Iraq?