Wa-Wa-Wa-WHAT!? The troop surge is working!??

How can this be???

At least according to the AP (and we're skeptical), it seems that there's been about a 65% reduction in sectarian killings in Baghdad in just the first two weeks since the troop surge has gone into effect in Baghdad!

While Baghdad saw this past January's total hit 954 such killings, after December's 1,222, there have been a total of 164 killings discovered since February 14th - that would translate to 328 over a month (about a 65% reduction from January's figure, a 72% drop from December's...the AP called it a "small success," while acknowledging that 390 bodies were found over the same two week period last year.

What happened to the anti-war crowd???

A new poll shows that 57% of Americans "support the troops finishing the job in Iraq."

53% believe victory is still possible in Iraq, while only 43% do not.

A whopping 59% say an immediate withdrawal would damage America's standing in the world, and ONLY 17% favor an immediate withdrawal!

Wasn't it just a couple of weeks ago that some Liberals were claiming that polls showing that about 70% of Americans disapporved of the way the war in Iraq is being run, showed that "about 70% of the American people favored an immediate withdrawal from Iraq?

Guess that's not what that poll actually indicated.

http://www.pos.org/inthenews/20070220.cfm