Joe Biden came back from Iraq and said "The Surge has failed." Harry Reid didn't even wait for the troops to arrive in Iraq before saying that "The Surge has failed." Even some Republicans have said "The Surge has failed." The media almost as one said back in July and August that "The Surge has failed." I wonder if anyone in the media will note that they were wrong?Violence in Iraq has dropped by 70 percent since the end of June, when U.S. forces completed their build-up of 30,000 extra troops to stabilize the war-torn country, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. The ministry released the new figures as bomb blasts in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul killed five people and six gunmen died in clashes with police in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala south of the Iraqi capital. Washington began dispatching reinforcements to Iraq in February to try to buy Iraq's feuding political leaders time to reach a political accommodation to end...(Read Full Post)