Charts shows level of violence in Iraq 2003-2007

Here is a chart of guerrilla attacks in Iraq since 2003 through April 2007. It is from a GAO document on Iraq,"GAO-07-677 Iraq Electricity and Oil," p. 34. The original is in .pdf format here.

I think it says it all. Note that all the activity related to the"surge" seems to have gotten the mayhem nearly back down to what it was in . . . July 2006, that veritable paradise of communal harmony.

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