July was most violent month yet in Iraq

While the American media was consumed with the conflict in Lebanon, Iraqis were dying in record numbers:

More Iraqi civilians were killed in July than in apparently any other month of the war, according to Iraqi Health Ministry and morgue statistics, despite a security plan begun by the new government in June.

An average of more than 110 Iraqis were killed per day in July, according to figures from the Health Ministry and the Baghdad morgue. At least 3,438 civilians died violently that month, a 9 percent increase over the tally in June and nearly twice as many as in January.

So much for that much-touted security plan. There is no plan for Iraq. There never was a plan for Iraq.