ICasualties found this at Reuters:
Attacks in Iraq last month reached their highest daily average since May 2003, showing a surge in violence as President George W. Bush completed a buildup of U.S. troops, Pentagon statistics show....
.... The June numbers showed 5,335 attacks against coalition troops, Iraqi security forces, civilians and infrastructure.
June's total was 2.5 percent below an October 2006 peak of 5,472 attacks and slightly lower than the 5,365 attacks in May.
But because June has only 30 days, the average daily number of attacks was 177.8, higher than the 176.5 last October and 173.1 in May.
The Pentagon statistics, which come as pressure mounts in the U.S. Congress for a troop withdrawal from Iraq, depicted the most intensive month for daily attacks since Bush declared major combat operations at an end in May 2003.....
This administration will push for more time in Iraq. No matter what happens by September, they will ask for more time to examine/study results of the surge. If November comes and they still don't have their results, they'll say they need to wait to spring. Here is a simpler explanation of Bush's Iraq strategy:
the surge + more time + more troops = stay the course
Bush's only plan with Iraq is to dump it into the lap of the next President. That is Bush's exit strategy.
