Check out this graph. A lot of combat fatalities in Iraq are piling up. So's the cost.

The derivative of the deaths has been positive, but nearly constant, but in the last month or so, the second derivative is positive.

That means the number of deaths is going up, and the rate at which the number of deaths is going up is going up. 15 killed the other day, 6 killed today. All from the people who wanted us to liberate them.