From the "What 'victory' looks like" file.

A final Iraq report from Chad Shue...

Iraq Body Count: 12/18/2011
Total Americans Killed: 4484
Post Obama Inauguration: 264
Post “End of Combat”: 68

What victory looks like…

…via Juan Cole.

Al-Safir reports that 2 were killed and 14 wounded in a series of bombings extending over a two-hour period in Baghdad in the late afternoon on Thursday, which targeted Christians.

General Petraeus must be very proud of his, ahem, achievement.

From the "What victory looks like" file.

Via the NYT...

Thousands of Iraqi Christians from Baghdad and Mosul have fled to northern Iraq amid a campaign of targeted violence against them.

And all it costs is blood and treasure.

Elsewhere…

..what "victory" looks like.

BAGHDAD - More than a dozen bombs struck Baghdad Tuesday evening, killing almost 40 people and wounding 70 in coordinated blasts two days after Al Qaida-linked gunmen stormed a church in one of the deadliest attacks in a year.

Won't it be great when we "win" in Afghanistan, too?

What victory looks like.

CNN...

A string of bombings and shootings across Baghdad Monday left at least one Iraqi military officer dead and wounded more than a dozen civilians and soldiers, an Interior Ministry official said Monday.