umm ya im passing no judgement on the success or failure of the war in Iraq...
but dont u think we should view US army reports of "breathtaking" success directly after this controvercial troop surge with a bit of skepticism... i mean they kinda have an agenda and that agenda is kinda to make the war look as good as possible... Not to mention the fact that no real figures were stated there... so far it appears that killing a few high ranking officials in terrorist networks does little to upset their operations...

i unnow i guess we'll just see in a few months when we get some legitimate figures on the violence over there