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All that the General really said was that the surge caused the violence to go down, which it did. He is not saying that Iraq is some success story because it certainly is not.  He admitted that the Iraqi government is failing to really make any progress, which is basically true.  His assessment was basically that the surge worked to curtail violence, which is mostly true.  And he showed that violence is down and attacks are down in these areas. 

I dont know why hearing that gets people so upset, he did not say Iraq is going great, he just said that the surge had some success.