Now, I'm Almost Convinced, Murtha Sees Progress

For month's the jury has been out on how well the 'surge' is actually working. After last month's reports on troop deaths and Iraq Security/Civilian deaths, I am starting to feel more and more confident that this thing is actually working. American troop deaths fell to 37 deaths in November, 1 lower than last month and the lowest since March of 2006. As far Iraqi deaths are concerned, it fell again to 560 deaths down more than a 100 of last month that was also a low over the last 2- plus years. I'm nearly convinced that the surge is working, but until violence is proven to be sustained and we are seriously stable enough to consider troop withdraws, I'm not entirely convinced.

On another note, the progress has been so significant that even John Murtha acknowledged that the surge is working. Murtha just returned from a Thanksgiving visit to Iraq and stated that he was most encouraged by the progress of a once out of control area of the Anbar province.

Who knows, times have been hard, but things might be starting to turn around.