Analysis: Baghdad - Where to from here?

WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) -- The security situation in Iraq has reached its nadir, becoming the most worrisome since U.S. forces first entered Baghdad in April 2003.

There seems to be no end to the nightmarish hell into which Iraq is free-falling, the cadence of violence increasing progressively with every week. Thirty car bombs exploded in just this past month, killing dozens of innocent people, many of them new recruits of the Iraqi National Guard or police.

Attacks against U.S. forces have reached an all-time high of about 80 a day. More than 1,000 U.S. troops have lost their lives and about 100 people have been kidnapped, many of them Westerners helping rebuild the country. While most of those abducted have been released, about 20 have been killed, often in the most gruesome manner. And largely unreported are the Iraqi civilian casualties who, as of Sept. 22, number 14,843, according to Iraqbodycount.org, a London-based non-governmental organization.

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Short of committing at least another 150,000 to 200,000 combat troops to clamp down on the insurgency with a titanium fist, the security situation in Iraq will continue to deteriorate. January's much-anticipated elections -- if they still occur -- are unlikely to really address the insurgency and violence, which President Bush admits will only grow as the election date nears.

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Not yet. This is wishful thinking. Nadir would be a bare handed siege of the green zone.

But in the next paragraph it says:

"There seems to be no end to the nightmarish hell into which Iraq is free-falling ...", so who's to know? I think he was just
being rhetorical and got his cliches mixed up a little.