"VIOLENCE DOWN IN IRAQ?" I Wonder WHY. ...Try: ETHNIC-CLEANSING + A REFUGEE CRISIS.

It's not like a measure of success, exactly... but CNN's report, "Violence in Iraq Down Sharply," or something; made it sound like Bush/Cheney's "surge" was a stroke-of-genius; again: "or something." Bush/Cheney's little Occupation of Iraq, "war," has been an unmitigated DISASTER... for the region, and the rest-of-us... Bring on the $4/Gallon gasoline...

"Violence Down Sharply?"
CNN... Please!!!
They're all DEAD; or starving on the Syrian/Jordanian border(s).

Street-crime was down (locally) in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, following the Summer of 1945, too. I wonder why, Herb.