Nice try, but it's been over 4 years of nothing but GOOD NEWS coming out of conservatives on this. Not one month. And everyone, literally everyone predicted that there would be reduction in violence, which would return with a vengeance once the surge was over. Bush will declare "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" and the bloodshed will start.

"The Baghdad Security Plan is now over one month old since its official announcement on February 14. While it is impossible to judge progress over the course of one month in a complex battlespace such as Baghdad, the initial signs are encouraging. Sectarian murders, the fuel for the potential Sunni - Shia civil war, have been dramatically reduced. Before the beginning of the operation, Scores of bodies were found executed daily, now the number is in the single digits. Massive car bomb attacks, which in the past have killed dozens and wounded hundreds, have been reduced."

Helluva plan you guys have executed. I simply can't imagine how you could be any more discredited, lack any more credibility, or have been made to look more foolish than you have. It's understandable why you'd want to try "new pitcher, new strikes" and claim it's only been one month.

But it's been 4 years - longer than WWII.

Arf