The Surge is Already Working

For those who aren't willing to give the "surge" a chance to succeed, they better hurry up in their obstruction efforts because it's already beginning to work:

WASHINGTON — Death squad leaders have fled Baghdad to evade capture or killing by U.S. and Iraqi forces before the start of the troop "surge" and security crackdown in the capital.

A former senior Iraqi minister said most of the leaders loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, the radical anti-American cleric, had gone into hiding in Iran.

Among those said to have fled is Abu Deraa, theShiite militia leader whose appetite for sectarian savagery has been compared to that of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, who was killed last year.

It looks like the terrorists have more faith in our troops than does the Congress.