The Bush Administration complains that we aren’t hearing the good news from Iraq. Their critics point to rising levels of violence that are impossible to ignore.
The truth about the situation in Iraq is more complex than we imagine. For the most part, I don’t think we see even the tip of the iceberg — the news we get is a bit of frost scraped from the tip of the iceberg.
This page lists many kinds of data from Iraq from May 2003 to May 2005. There seem to be some trends — some good, some bad. (I found the graphic labeled “View the Op-Chart” easier to understand than the text data.)
More than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraq remains a complex mix of tragedy and hope. To give a sense of the ebb and flow, this chart shows data for three key months: May 2003 (the first full month after the fall of Baghdad), June 2004 (the last month before the Coalition Authority gave way to the interim Iraqi government) and May 2005.
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