You truly fail to appreciate the nature of the problem. The insurgency is ubiquitous. I can emerge anywhere in Iraq. We simply don't have and can't provide enough troops to quell the violence. What is going on is precisely what I predicted would happen before we invaded. All one needed to do was observe the sectarian violence among the one million Palestinians in Gaza and extrapolate that to 26 million Iraqis. The result was obvious.

And now here's a little more about the awful mess George Bush got us into:

Contractor Deaths in Iraq Soar to Record

By JOHN M. BRODER and JAMES RISEN
Published: May 19, 2007

WASHINGTON, May 18 — Casualties among private contractors in Iraq have soared to record levels this year, setting a pace that seems certain to turn 2007 into the bloodiest year yet for the civilians who work alongside the American military in the war zone, according to new government numbers.

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Meanwhile, 3,409 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq in pursuit of weapons of mass destruction that did not actually exist.