The Last Throes

Several months ago, I linked to the Iraq Coalition Casualties site. At the time, their statistics showed that casualties in Iraq were on the downswing. Well, now that the insurgency is in its last throes, according to the administration, the May and June rates show a dramatic jump up to nearly three dead Americans per day, a rate comparable to the worst period since war's end. Plus the death rate for Iraqis has shot up considerably in May (8.7 dead per day) and June (11.2 dead per day) over previous months (6.7 per day in March and April, 3.3 per day in January and February). Thank God the death will be ending soon, eh?