IBC, Iraq Body Count, states today that approximatly 24000 cicilians was killed in Iraq during 2007.
Though the war in Iraq was baptised "Enduring Freedom" by the US led coaltion, the amount of bad blood, I assume will gridlock the hate and the feed the war/crisis for a considerably long and saddening amount of years.
And the status? If any? The war hits year 5 in march 2008...Do you feel more safe? Is petrol any cheaper? Do you trust your arab neighbour more, and still enjoy your sharwarma? Do you have hope that the american presidential campaign that will kick off today in Iowa will change a lot? And of Afghanistan and Pakistan? And Iran?

The bedspread of 2008 seems promising in one direction. Casualties and blindfolded repetition. God its cold.

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/