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Bill Kristol says the surge is working. Hrm. According to this graph, it looks like the drop in deaths doesn't necessarily correspond to the surge, which, I believe, began in April of last year. However, it sure does correspond to Moqtada al-Sadr's voluntary 6 month cease-fire that he called for strategic reasons. Maybe we should wait until February to see if the surge results can hold once the Mahdi army actually starts, you know, trying to kill people again. As of right now, it's all propaganda from both sides. Like that will ever change, though...

Also, Bill Kristol is totally phoning it in with these columns. I'm disappointed and bored. He's not even trying. I guess he saves his really inflammatory stuff for Hannity. Boo.

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Yeah, this "surge is working" talking point just ain't gonna work, even on the beaten-down, propagandized bunch of sad sacks that we have become. After 4,000 combat deaths, 600,000 civilian deaths, and $1 trillion tossed down a sandy hole, it is insulting that neocons expect us to clap our forearms together in glee at the news that the (American) death rate has decreased.

We may be fat sheep, but we're not utterly brainless. People have figured out that like everything else in this fucked up war, it's all about our national politics. This "news" will be used to boost the Republican candidate in the Presidential election; and after 2008, W and his creepy personality cult can blame future upticks in violence on Democratics whose failure to stay the course "lost" Iraq.