Credit Where It's Due

Rep. Nancy Pelosi has decreed that the surge in Iraq worked.

Not because of the hard work of Iraqis and Americans who defeated the insurgency and al Qaeda fanatics who slaughtered countless people.

Not because of General Petraeus' surge strategy.

But because of the goodwill of Iran.

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.

Iran continues to try and subvert the Iraqi government and has its thugs and terrorists trying to kill Iraqis and Americans on a daily basis to this day. There are frequent reports of Iranians killed or captured trying to attack Iraqis or Americans. Iranian weaponry and equipment is responsible for killing Americans.

Yet Pelosi has the audacity to give credit to the Iranians for all the hard work done by the Iraqis and the US-led coalition in Iraq? Unbelievable. Just when you think that Pelosi's grasp on facts can't be any worse, she goes out and surprises.