United States Turns over Wasit Province to the Iraqis

 Even as Barack Obama tries to claim that the surge has failed because no political reconciliation has occurred the news from Iraq just keeps getting better. Obama has glommed onto this false notion that the surge was supposed to win political reconciliation when the true goal of the surge was to stabilize the country and bring a stop to the violence. After that is accomplished the Iraqis can talk political reconciliation.

 It is no wonder that he is trying to change the goal of the surge, because the goal is being reached slowly but surely. The United States military has handed Iraq’s southern province into Iraqi control. This means that the Iraqis are now responsible for security in this area. 

The U.S. military on Wednesday handed over security responsibility for the southern province of Wasit to Iraqi authorities — a step that acknowledges the growing capability of the country’s fledgling security forces.

 This means that Iraq now controls 13 of their 18 provinces as they move toward total control of their country.

 It is a shame that as conditions improve the coverage in the news continues to decline. As the body counts were adding up the news coverage was endless, now that our military is succeeding there is hardly a mention in the news.