The Surge is Working!!!

A string of suicide bombings in has hit Iraq: (see also here)

• On Tuesday, a suicide bombing killed 36 and wounded at least 35 others in Baghdad's Zayouna (the worst attack since August)
• A female suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint of neighbourhood patrol volunteers Wednesday morning in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, reports Reuters. The attack killed 10
• The abduction and killing of five relatives on Tuesday morning in Jalawla, one of the five killed was a policeman.
• fighters from Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia kidnapped a farmer and killed his son in Dhuluiya, and stole 200 of the farmer’s sheep. (not going with the obvious comment)
  
• The severed head of a member of an called Awakening Council, the Sunni Militias created and armed by David Petraeus was found north of Muqdadiya.
• Gunmen killed three people in a village 40 miles south of Kirkuk.

We need to get out sooner, rather than later. We are doing no good there.