Please do not confuse this to ambulance chasing. I do not at all in the least celebrate that dozens have been killed in Iraq by four suicide bombers in order to prove a point.
However, the sad reality, and what pisses me off about the Obama campaign, by turning over and playing dead - on the question of the surge - among other issues, is that "the surge has worked" is a myth in the fantasy land that was Iraq of the garden of Eden, but certainly not the Iraq of July 2008. Sadly the media has not only allowed this untruth to fester unchallenged, but they have continued to perpetuate it. This morning's headlines only highlight this lie, and it would be nice to say "I told you so", except, it is actually the lives of real human beings that were involved and that were destroyed in today's tragic incidents!
Suicide Bombers Kill Dozens in Iraq today
So will Obama now flop back to arguing as he should have maintained from the get go, that there is no substantive yardstick for measuring success in Iraq? Will he be demanding of the GOP to define what they mean when they claim that the surge has worked, as the NY times did when they asked McCain for a definition of success, or will he just sit by and allow the Rethugs to spin their way out with yet more lies, omissions and re-definitions of English vocabulary? I am so fucking tired of this shit already!