I haven't shifted anything since 2002, Sawz... The war was both wrong and lost... No shift... Both are true...

The Surge itself didn't work... It wasn't more boots on the ground but an entire shift in strategy... It also didn't hurt that the "Anwar Awakening" was occuring at the same time as the Surge... But a couple things, other than the Anwar Awakeining cornerstone occured.... The US began making cash payments to Sunnis not to shoot at US and the US, under David Patreas, put our military in neigborgoods 24/7... Both were smart... But it was the Sunni's realizing that they didn't want al qeada in their country that was the biggie...

B~