Monthly Iraqi Civilian Deaths vs. Coalition Military Deaths

There is always so much controversy over the number of people killed and the relative levels of violence in Iraq. However, I think the trend is more important than the absolute perfect estimate. You can see that Iraq is slowly spiraling downwards. For a country of 26 million to have close to 55,000 civilians (2%+ of the population) killed by violence over 3 years, and the violence to have doubled in 2006 vs. 2005 is the beginning of the end for peace.

The whole region has tribal and religious conflicts that go back hundreds of years. Just like every other country in the region, they need a common enemy to provide unity (Shia--> Sunni, Palestinians --> Israeli). I suggest focusing their anger on Britney Spears, or maybe bears.

Are there numbers before the US invasion? This could be very interesting, although I doubt that Saddam's "government" publiced those numbers...

I found figures for average annual rate of Iraqi civilian deaths resulting from democide during the Saddam regime (from strategypage.com):

100 per 100,000, or 0.1%. That makes the annual rate more than 6 times higher now than it was under Saddam! I am not a Saddam apologist by any stretch of the imagination, but the numbers show what we all know already, whether we agree with the basis for the invasion or not: everything has gone horribly wrong in Iraq, the war became a huge failure a long time ago. 6 times more people are violently killed there than before we arrived. It's no surprise that troops are no longer welcome there, but there is no easy way out now.

If the war was being fought here in America it would read the same way. The graph states that these deaths are military and non military related, so that means there are still hundreds of people dying every day of natural and accidental causes.

The only true statement that can be said on this is that violent civilian deaths are on the rise since 2003. Thankfully no one is saying otherwise.

America, your tactics is empeaching development of any country which is not part of the OCDE and steal its resourses by "legal" means pacted with their govs. , ex. "privatizations".
Your game is known now by everybody and it's hard for you to stop now, cause everybody want to see you dissarmed and you know it.
What will you do when the world leaded by the chinese, russians, indians, brasilians, etc will go for you?
"Africans, come help me. I'll make you RICH" ... haha.