While America pleads with Bush to end his war in Iraq, he answers by doubling the air attacks and killing even more civilians.

Four years into the war that opened with "shock and awe," U.S. warplanes have again stepped up attacks in Iraq , dropping bombs at more than twice the rate of a year ago.

It also reflects increased availability of planes from U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf. And it appears to be accompanied by a rise in Iraqi civilian casualties.

The rate of such reported civilian deaths appeared to climb steadily through 2006, the group reports, averaging just a few a month in early 2006, hitting some 40 a month by year‘s end, and averaging more than 50 a month so far this year.

You know Bush and his cohorts never miss an opportunity to talk about how evil the Iraqis are that kill their fellow Iraqis, but what do we call a country that simply flies over head raining death on innocent people from above?