The surge worked better than anyone could have expected or hoped(or in the case of liberals it's working better then their worst fears).The Democrats are being hurt by the fact that attacks on US soldiers are down, thats pretty sad. You don't hear a peep out of them now about the war, those bunch of scamballs. Maybe now they will have to focus on how Bush is destroying the whole Earth with global warming which is a hard sell in the winter, they usually wait till a heat wave in the middle of summer or during a hurricane to harp on that fear.