Yes what a difference a year has made. We have sunk what, another $300 billion in a country that spent the last 2 years ethnically cleansing Baghdad so that no Christians exist in Iraq anymore, so that 2-4 million Sunnis are displaced from their homes and living in poverty in Jordan, Syria, and Egypt.

The surge helped build concrete barriers so that communities do not come into contact with each other.

Oh what a shining model of democracy we have provided Iraq. Mission Accomplished. Bravo!