The surge has worked to keep the US in Iraq for at least ten to twenty more years.
The big embassy that the US has built there is a joke. Anyone who thinks that the violence in Iraq is over is sadly mistaken. Obama has inherited an occupation that will be difficult to
end. More American troops will die as a result.

As to the Right-wing spin on this issue with a lot of phony proclamations by essentially biased "pundits", you can take them with a bushel of salt.

More factoids and less reality.

Stringsinger