That doesn’t come as surprise to anyone who’s been following the news accounts from Baghdad. That said, it’s obvious that more reports are surfacing that tell the same story. Here’s one such article.

In the week of Feb. 24 to March 2, officials said, insurgency strikes and suicide bombings dropped for the fourth consecutive week in Baghdad. They linked this to the steady increase of security patrols in the city.

The army said violence has decreased by 80 percent in the most insurgency-ridden areas of Baghdad. Officials said Shi’ite and Sunni insurgents have been overwhelmed by the current joint Iraqi-U.S. operation in the Iraqi capital.

Earlier today, I posted a quote from Fred Barnes during last night’s roundtable discussion where Fred said that Nancy Pelosi won’t admit it but Brian Williams has reported that there’s been a change in strategy in Baghdad. I said awhile ago that President Bush’s ‘Come to Jesus’ meeting with Maliki, where President Bush said that there wouldn’t be political cover given to people like Muqtada al-Sadr, was a major turning point in securing Baghdad. These statistics bear that opinion out.

Here’s more positive information on what’s happening in Baghdad:

Brig. Gen. John Campbell, deputy commander of Multi-National Division-Baghdad, told a briefing on March 6 that 19 people were killed in insurgency strikes in Baghdad in February 2007. Campbell said 254 were slain in the city in December 2006.

A drop from 254 civilians killed in December to 19 in February is a dramatic improvement. In fact, I’d say that dramatic is understatement. It gets better:

Campbell said Iraqi and U.S. forces have been raiding insurgency strongholds and capturing weapons caches. He said that from Feb. 24 to March 2, the forces seized 74 weapon caches. This exceeded the previous week’s total by 11.

You can’t maintain an insurgency if you’ve had your ammunition supply depleted to that level. Based on this information, I’d say that the insurgents are running out of ammunition. This shortage has diminished the insurgents’ capability to inflict violence on citizens.

All of this good news must be disconcerting to the team of Pelosi, Murtha, Levin and other left wing pacifists. If this continues, opinions of the war will change and they’ll be swimming upstream against a strong current for 2008. That’s something the ‘Party That Owns Defeat’ can’t tolerate if they hope to have any electoral success. Their presidential candidates have moved so far left on this issue that they’d be riddled with questions of why they lost confidence in the military’s ability to complete their mission.

Rest assured that this information is giving Democrat strategists heartburn, if not ulcers. Let’s hope that this type of positive information keeps coming another six months. If it does, then Democrats will be in a precarious position for 2008.

I can’t think of a group that’s earned that position more.

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Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

1. [...] Yes, Folks, our faith in journalists may be on the rise. In today’s WaPo, The Surge is Succeeding! More here and even Brian Williams, anchor at NBC Nightly News is reporting that there is positive change in Iraq. [...]

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1. Here’s an alternate take on matters:

   DEMOCRATS’ THREAT TO WITHDRAW WORKING!!!

   Nouri al-Maliki sees that the newly elected Democratic Congress is proposing withdrawing from Iraq, and knowing that insurgents are sure to take over should US troops leave, he finally begins stepping up to the plate. Bush’s “come to Jesus” [let's pause here for a moment and consider the ramifications of this spin... mind-boggling, to say the least] visit highlighted the coming Demcratic plan, which calls for a removal of troops, unlike every previous Bush plan or surge (or whatever you want to call it).

   Once again, the Democrats fix the Republican f**k-ups. What else is new?

   Comment by Zachary — March 8, 2007 @ 4:57 pm

2. “The surge is working”????
   I will put that in the same category as;
   The last throes of the insurgency
   We are absolutely winning
   Wake up and smell the coffee….. and stop drinking that Kool Aid

   Comment by John Ryan — March 9, 2007 @ 10:22 am

3. HOOAH!! We are speaking the same language. I have posted similarly on my blog.

   Pleasure to meet the aquaintance of another FORMER silent member of the Silent Majority, silent no more!!

   A friend of mine says the Silent Majority needs to wake up and overcome the Vocal Minority.

   Keep the Faith. Keep UP the good work out there in Leftifornia!!

   Comment by Snooper — March 12, 2007 @ 12:46 am