'Progress' In Bush's War On Terrorism

The Brookings Institute recently published its latest "Iraq Index" which I found particularly interesting. The subtitle of this publication is "Tracking Variables of Reconstruction & Security in Post-Sadaam Iraq", and it's jam-packed with information about the so-called 'progress' that Bush and his apologists lie about on a daily basis. The full report can be viewed here.

There are a multitude of graphs, charts, and tables which detail everything broken out over various categories and circumstances. What I wanted to draw your attention to was page #19. The first table on this page is entitled "Insurgency Indicators", and it breaks down terrorism attacks between 2004 and 2005. Immediately following that table is another table which depicts the level of terrorism activity both in Iraq and worldwide. These statistics are astonishing:

INSURGENCY INDICATORS

	2004	2005
Insurgent attacks (total)	26,496	34,131
Car bombs	420	873
Suicide car bombs	133	411
Roadside bombs	5,607	10,953
US Soldiers Killed	848	846
US Soldiers Wounded	7989	5939

TERRORISM AND IRAQ

	2004	2005
Number of Terrorist Attacks Worldwide	2,800	11,111
Number of Fatalities Worldwide due to Terrorist Attacks	N/A	14,600
Number of Terrorist Attacks in Iraq	1,800	3,474 (~30% of total)
Number of Fatalities in Iraq due to Terrorist Attacks	4,000	8,300 (~55% of total)

Take a good look at these tables. Take a good long look at the 'progress' in our big "War on Terrorism". Take a look at how much safer we are now. The way I read this second chart, the level of terrorism has doubled in Iraq between 2004 & 2005, while the worldwide level of terrorism has skyrocketed four-fold over that same period.

Thank you, Georgie. You're doin' a heckuva job!