The Toll of Iraq

Except for a brief spike at the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, President Bush's approval rating has seen a steady decline that is clearly inversely related to the rise in the total death toll of U.S. forces serving in Iraq. His standing certainly hasn't been helped by the continuinig Iraqi civilian death toll, though the number of casualties has clearly fallen since the U.S. surge began last year.

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