Nearly 2,000 Iraqi Civilians Killed in May, 2007

June 2 (LPAC)--The capitulation of the Democratic Party-controlled Congress to the Cheney-Bush escalation in Iraq has meant that there is no end in sight to the U.S. military, and Iraqi civilian casualties. Reuters reports today, from an Iraqi Interior Ministry source, that the civilian death toll from violence in Iraq reached 1,944 in May, an increase of 29 percent over April. Additionally, 174 Iraqi police and soldiers were also killed in May. Sectarian murders are also increasing from a reported fewer than 10 per day when the U.S. security crackdown began to 30 or more per day.

May, 2007 also had one of the highest death tolls of U.S. soldiers in the four years and two months since the war began.