Official data showed that the number of Iraqi civilians slain in violence in October was 343, nearly triple the number who died in a relatively quiet September, but still well short of August’s toll.
Nearly half of those slain died in the October 25 suicide truck bombings in Baghdad, which saw 160 killed, mostly civilians, in the attack on the Justice Ministry and provincial government building.
August saw 456 killed, and again a large number of them in Baghdad truck bombings. The US says it expects the number of high profile attacks in Iraq to increase over the next several months ahead of the January parliamentary elections.
Though the death tolls on a hole are somewhat lower than in earlier years of the war, the death toll has not dropped to anything resembling pre-war levels, suggesting that Iraq remains a very dangerous place.
We need to get the hell out of there. The reasons for war were all a lie. We have done nothing but bring death and destruction to this country. We have allowed ethnic cleansing of cities and neighborhoods. Obama continues to follow the Bush policies.
I apologize to all Iraqis for the evils my country has brought them.