The Deadliest Year

The "surge" notwithstanding, 2007 was the deadliest year in Iraq.

A day-by-day chart compiled by American and Iraqi governments and news media organizations provides the details. Altogether, 2,592 were killed. Iraqi civilian deaths were too numerous to be included in the pictorial chart. The display includes deaths from the following sources: hostile fire, homemade bomb, car bomb, suicide bomb, nonhostile/accidental/suicide and source unknown. It also portrays identities of the dead (American, Coalition or Iraqi forces, police and Iraqi security foces) and number of deaths by province.

What a piece of history to hang in the school rooms.