WTF Is It Now?!?

"The Petraeus plan is in fact producing results"
Significant progress predicted by the same man who told us the insurgency was in its last throes.

On what planet? Headline: "Violence continues unabated in Iraq" --

Car bombs kill scores in Baghdad: At least 67 people have been killed and almost 100 have been wounded in two separate bombings in Baghdad, Iraqi police have said. In one attack, a fuel tanker packed with explosives exploded near a petrol station in the mainly Sunni suburb of Mansour, killing 50. Earlier, at least 17 people were killed and 32 injured in a blast in the mainly Shia shopping district of Karrada.

The main Sunni Arab political bloc quit the Iraqi cabinet on Wednesday, plunging the government into crisis on a day when suicide bombers killed more than 73 people with massive strikes in the capital.

The number of Iraqi civilians killed rose by more than a third in July despite a five-month-old surge in US troop levels, 33 percent more than in the previous month.

American military deaths for July rose to 76 on Wednesday with the report of three U.S. soldiers killed by a powerful roadside bomb.

And another misadministartion fuck-up: The US government cannot account for 190,000 weapons issued to Iraqi security forces in 2004 and 2005, according to an investigation carried out by the Government Accountability Office.

In a related story....
Dick Cheney: Iraq crackdown yielding results

Dick Cheney said Tuesday that the US troop "surge" in Iraq had improved security there, and defended the decision by lawmakers in Baghdad to take a one-month August vacation.

"It's better than taking two months off, which was their original plan," he told CNN's Larry King.

Uhhh, yeah. Great.