Winslow Wheeler has kindly drawn our attention to the following report by Lawrence Korb and Brian Katulis of the Center for American Progress. The report “Progress in Iraq: A 2006 Report Card on the Bush Administration’s Iraq Policy” summarizes recent data on the state of affairs in Iraq and provides useful links to other reports and data.
Perhaps the most important information in this report is recent polling data from Iraq that 61 percent of all people there “support attacks against U.S.-led coalition forces,” a dramatic 14 point increase since January 2006. Worse, nine in 10 Sunnis approve of such attacks, as do 62 percent of Shiites. Only in Kurdistan does only a minority support attacks against the United States and its allies.
The Korb-Katulis report from the Center for American Progress is available at:
http://www.cdi.org/PDFs/Korb%20Katulis%20I...REPORT_CARD.pdf