The "surge" thus far

If you're not willing to wait the six months Joe Lieberman and the other Bush loyalists encourage, Reality Based Educator pointed to this McClatchy article in the comments that takes a detailed look at some of the "metrics." (That's what you call dead bodies when you're a cool defense expert.)

Short version, "the surge" thus far is having little significant effect, death squad killings are down, bombing fatalities are up, and the overall level of reported violence in Baghdad is more or less the same.

The timespans involved are pretty short, so I don't know about hard conclusions, but there has not been any appreciable dip in violence thus far.

But, maybe if we wait six more months.......