The Washington Post, no lap dog of George W. Bush, says the Democratic Presidential candidates refuse to acknowledge substantial improvement in Irag directly attributable to The President's 'surge' strategy. The surge has worked, or at least is working. A friend told me a few weeks back you could tell it was working because the press stopped calling it the 'surge'. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/07/AR2008010702632.html