BIDEN TAKES CREDIT FOR IRAQ SUCCESS

Not unbelievable...Expected. Look at him fight the notion of success every step of the way. He invested his political future on defeat in Iraq. We won. And now Joe's defeatist chickens are coming home to roost.

WHY DOES NANCY PELOSI HATE AMERICA?

This has to be one of the more disgusting political machinations you will see. But, I should say, not at all unusual anymore and by no means a surprise. After accidentally admitting that the troop surge in Iraq is working, the dragon lady Nany Pelosi scrambled to come up with a reason for success that was related to America, its people, or its soldiers in combat. Here's what she came up with:

Asked if she saw any evidence of the surge’s positive impact on her May 17 trip to Iraq she responded:

Well, the purpose of the surge was to provide a secure space, a time for the political change to occur to accomplish the reconciliation. That didn’t happen. Whatever the military success, and progress that may have been made, the surge didn’t accomplish its goal. And some of the success of the surge is that the goodwill of the Iranians-they decided in Basra when the fighting would end, they negotiated that cessation of hostilities-the Iranians.

The mental illness that has overtaken the left is nothing short of that which swept the nazis to power in Germany. There is no difference. Shame on them. And shame on you for just standing by and watching.

US MAKES PROGRESS IN IRAQ'S "TRIANGLE OF DEATH"

Here's some news you won't hear on CNN...

When the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division arrived in Iraq's once infamous "Triangle of Death," violence there and in neighboring Baghdad was so intense that hundreds were dying every day and the country was virtually in a state of civil war.

Now as the division heads home at the end of May, the region stretching south from Baghdad and across central Iraq has become a showcase for what the U.S. military hoped to achieve in Iraq.

"When we first arrived here 15 months ago there was nothing but sectarian violence, al-Qaida, Shiite extremists," the division commander Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch said as he wrapped up a tour of an industrial complex.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and U.S. officials are likely to tout successes like that here during a U.N. conference that begins Thursday in Sweden, aimed at reviewing political and security progress in Iraq. The gathering will also see pressure on Iraqi leaders to make similar movement on political goals, such as reconciliation between the country's Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds.

The U.S. military says violence across Iraq has reached its lowest level in more than four years after successes this year in breaking al-Qaida's and other Sunni insurgents' hold in western Iraq and _ more recently _ government crackdowns in the southern city of Basra and northern city of Mosul.