One of the key metrics by which George the Fake is judged is his hobby horse war in Iraq.

An interesting cmparison of core metrics of the operation is provided here by the Nww York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/09/03/opinion/20070904_IRAQ_GRAPHIC.html. It accompanies this article on the state of Iraq.

It provides hard numbers (a small subset of the many that coudl be gathered) in support of charges of incompetence, not to mention unnecessary deaths of thousands, as a direct result of the Bush administrations policies.

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