We must be exagerating this civil war engulfing Baghdad business.
If things are 'cool' enough to take a break for the hot summer season, despite the US expectation for documentation of much more substantive progress by the government, then Iraq probably isn't in as chaotic a state as we think -or at least the Iraqi legislators don't think its so bad they should skip their vacations.
I don't constantly monitor casualties, but when I saw this note I wondered whether the heat impacted on the daily tally and confirmed this.
