Defeatist Watch

The surge is working according to even anti-Bush sources.

More than four months after U.S. forces completed a 30,000-strong force buildup, the death toll for both Iraqis and Americans has fallen dramatically for two months running.

U.S. commanders credit a new tactic of putting troops into neighborhood bases and of signing on disaffected former enemies as new allies in the fight against the most radical elements in both the Shiite and Sunni communities, especially al-Qaida in Iraq. Anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr also has called a cease-fire, a move seen largely responsible for the drop in sectarian murders.

On Feb. 23, when the death toll

So what were the Democrats prediction earlier in the year? Nothing good. They tried to actively block it, in fact.

Rep. Jack Murtha (D) says that he has figured out a way to stop Bush’s so-called troop “surge” before it is completed, while still maintaining Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s pledge not to cut off funding for “troops in the field.” He tells MoveCongress.org in a Web cast this morning that he plans to attach strings to the president’s $100 billion war funding bill that will effectively force the Administration to stall the troop increase.

Are they going to change their tune and claim it was their idea all along?

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