Department of “No Shit”: New Bob Woodward book explains that the surge didn’t work

Except in the eyes of a few 500-year old retards who still think Richard Nixon was a good president (and their Reagan-fellating buttbabies), Bob Woodward is considered one of the finest journalists in the country, and in his new book The War Within: A Secret White House History, 2006-2008, he explains what actually contributed to the drop in violence in Iraq:

The book…says that the U.S. troop “surge” of 2007, in which President Bush sent nearly 30,000 additional U.S. combat forces and support troops to Iraq, was not the primary factor behind the steep drop in violence there during the past 16 months.

Rather, Woodward reports, “groundbreaking” new covert techniques enabled U.S. military and intelligence officials to locate, target and kill insurgent leaders and key individuals in extremist groups such as al-Qaeda in Iraq.

(snip)

Overall, Woodward writes, four factors combined to reduce the violence: the covert operations; the influx of troops; the decision by militant cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to rein in his powerful Mahdi Army; and the so-called Anbar Awakening, in which tens of thousands of Sunnis turned against al-Qaeda in Iraq and allied with U.S. forces.

(For cash.)

Four factors?! Why do four factors hate America and John McCain’s Walnut Cheeks?

I called this post the Department of “No Shit,” because progressives (and *cough* Barack Obama) have understood this for awhile now, and understood that the Anbar Awakening was already happening before Teh Surge started. Unfortunately, a large group of Americans are less taken in by facts than they are by uber-flatulent Republican branding.

Stupid dumbasses.