It was three years ago today that President Bush played dress up flew a fighter jet onto the USS Abraham Lincoln. You may remember some of his now-infamous words [1].

Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

How has Iraq gone since then? Think Progress took a look at the numbers [2] since then.

(Note, the table seems to not have come out...you can see the table at the link above)

The only positive is the amount of Iraqi Security Forces. But the ludicrously small amount of Iraqi security forces at the time was a solid indication that Bush was, indeed, preamture in his decleration that the major fighting was over.

For some reason these numbers make it look like President Bush's photo op was just a bit premature.

Meanwhile, there are nine percent [3] who believe the mission has been accomplished. Um, if the mission is accomplished, what exactly was the mission? To take Sadaam out? OK...but plunging Iraq into civil war?

Meanwhile, 44 percent say that the mission will never be accomplished.