What We Can Expect From The Math

A lot has been written about yesterday being the sad fourth anniversary of the start of Iraq's catastrophe. It's a humanitarian crisis of biblical proportion. It's so ugly it defies description. Tom Dispatch just looks at a few numbers and gives us what we can expect to see.

According to the military newspaper Stars and Stripes there were 180 attacks a day on US forces on average in January. Since the resistance is growing and getting ever more sophisticated, and since in all liklihood the Shiite armies will enter the fray in the not so distant future that number will likely grow. Using that figure though and extrapolating into the future the US occupation can expect at least 117, 540 attacks by the end of 2008.